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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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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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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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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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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