It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. FORBESA shady business never yields a sunny life.
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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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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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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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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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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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To make headway, improve your head.
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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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