Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. FORBESTemporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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