Bragging often precedes begging.
B. C. FORBESThe man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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