Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
B. C. FORBESThe 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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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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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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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 real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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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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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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