Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. FORBESBragging often precedes begging.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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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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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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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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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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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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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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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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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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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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