Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. FORBESThe way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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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 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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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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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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. 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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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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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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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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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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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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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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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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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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