Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. FORBESMadame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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