Bragging often precedes begging.
B. C. FORBESLady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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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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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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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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