If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
B. C. FORBESWhen it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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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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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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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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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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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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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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