There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. FORBESReal riches are the riches possessed inside.
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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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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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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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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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The 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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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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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 man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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