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
B. C. FORBESThe man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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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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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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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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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