It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. FORBESHonesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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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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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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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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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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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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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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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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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Plan your work – work your plan
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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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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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 man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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