Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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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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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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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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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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