We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
B. C. FORBESMoney, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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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.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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 man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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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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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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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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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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Bragging often precedes begging.
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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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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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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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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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