Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
B. C. FORBESTime mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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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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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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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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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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