The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
B. C. FORBESTo succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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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 bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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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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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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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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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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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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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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