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.
B. C. FORBESActing without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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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…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 most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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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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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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