Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
B. C. FORBESLady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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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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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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