Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B. C. FORBESGolf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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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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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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