If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
B. C. FORBESIf a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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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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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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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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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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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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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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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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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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Plan your work – work your plan
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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