In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
B. C. FORBESIt is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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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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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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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.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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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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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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