Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
B. C. FORBESHonesty is the cornerstone of character.
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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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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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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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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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