It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
B. C. FORBESIf you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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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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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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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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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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