Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
B. C. FORBESThe man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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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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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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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