Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. FORBESThe man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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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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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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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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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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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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.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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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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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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