I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
B. C. FORBESDon’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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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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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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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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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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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