We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
B. C. FORBESWhimpering 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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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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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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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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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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.
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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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