Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
B. C. FORBESAnything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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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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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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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.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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