Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
B. C. FORBESWe must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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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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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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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 shady business never yields a sunny life.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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