The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
B. C. FORBESThe most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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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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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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