The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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 man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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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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