The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
B. C. FORBESMany 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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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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