Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
B. C. FORBESA price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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