Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
B. C. FORBESThe person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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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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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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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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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 of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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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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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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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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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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