The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
B. C. FORBESChristmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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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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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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To make headway, improve your head.
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