It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
B. C. FORBESEnthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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 truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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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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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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