Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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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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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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