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.
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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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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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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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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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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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 too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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