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B. C. FORBESIt’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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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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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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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 man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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 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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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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