Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
B. C. FORBESLife 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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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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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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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Enthusiasm 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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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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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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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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