The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
B. C. FORBESThe be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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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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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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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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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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