Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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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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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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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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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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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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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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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 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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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