The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
B. C. FORBESBragging often precedes begging.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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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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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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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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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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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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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