Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
B. C. FORBESOur 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 bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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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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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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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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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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