We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
B. C. FORBESIf a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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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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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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