The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
B. C. FORBESDiamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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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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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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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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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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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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