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.
B. C. FORBESHonesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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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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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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