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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.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes 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.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes To make headway, improve your head.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes 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.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes 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
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes A shady business never yields a sunny life.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes 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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Agnes AllenAgnes Allen It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise.
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Adrian TomineAdrian Tomine it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.
Adrian BejanAdrian Bejan It’s a lot easier to get in and out of a bath. Hot tubs are bad news for actors, man.
Adam PallyAdam Pally A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It’s for the same reason why we don’t like going to the doctor.
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