There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
B. C. FORBESIt is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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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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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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.
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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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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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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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