If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
B. C. FORBESLife is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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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 way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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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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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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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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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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