Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. FORBESA shady business never yields a sunny life.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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