Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
B. C. FORBESNo 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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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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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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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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 man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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