There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. FORBESIt is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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A 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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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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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 man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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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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