A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B. C. FORBESMadame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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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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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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