Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B. C. FORBESJustice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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Plan your work – work your plan
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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