The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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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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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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 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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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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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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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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