Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
B. C. FORBESVitally 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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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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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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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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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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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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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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To make headway, improve your head.
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