Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
B. C. FORBESHonesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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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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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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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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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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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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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