The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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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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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our 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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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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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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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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