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?
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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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 has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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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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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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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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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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