The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
B. C. FORBESThe 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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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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