No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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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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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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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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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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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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 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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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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