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.
B. C. FORBESDon’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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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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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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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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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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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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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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