Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
B. C. FORBESGolf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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