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.
B. C. FORBESUpon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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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Bragging often precedes begging.
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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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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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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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