The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
B. C. FORBESUpon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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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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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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