Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
B. C. FORBESJealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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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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Plan your work – work your plan
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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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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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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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