Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. FORBESA word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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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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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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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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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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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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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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