Kill time and you will kill your career.
B. C. FORBESA 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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Madame 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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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