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.
B. C. FORBESIf a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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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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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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