The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. FORBESThe man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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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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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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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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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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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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