If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
B. C. FORBESThe most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. 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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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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