We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
B. C. FORBESUse life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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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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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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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