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. FORBESThe human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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