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!
B. C. FORBESHonesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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