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.
B. C. FORBESWhat you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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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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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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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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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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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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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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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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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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