No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
B. C. FORBESThe most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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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 is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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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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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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