Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. FORBESThe Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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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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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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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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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 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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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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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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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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