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.
B. C. FORBESA word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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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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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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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