Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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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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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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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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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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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