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.
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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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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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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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 bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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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 who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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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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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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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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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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