It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. FORBESJealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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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 most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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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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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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