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.
B. C. FORBESUpon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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The 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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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 man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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