There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. FORBESAnything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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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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