What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
B. C. FORBESThe be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. 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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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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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…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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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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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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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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