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. FORBESSuccess consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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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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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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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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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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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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