Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
B. C. FORBESDiamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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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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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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
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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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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 without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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