The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. FORBESDifficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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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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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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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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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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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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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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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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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