Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
B. C. FORBESI have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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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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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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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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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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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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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. 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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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 way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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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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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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