Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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 Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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