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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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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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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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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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