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.
B. C. FORBESChristmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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