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.
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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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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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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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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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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