Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
B. C. FORBESLady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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Justice 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 Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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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