It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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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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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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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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