Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
B. C. FORBESThe fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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 is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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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 be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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