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.
B. C. FORBESWe must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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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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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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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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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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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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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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