Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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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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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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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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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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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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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 Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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