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.
B. C. FORBESTo 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 without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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I 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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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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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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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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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