He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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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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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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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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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.
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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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