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.
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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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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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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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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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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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.
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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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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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