Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
B. C. FORBESA word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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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.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would 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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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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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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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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