There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. FORBESThere 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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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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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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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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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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