Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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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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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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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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