Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
B. C. FORBESOur 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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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A 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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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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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.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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