Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
B. C. FORBESNext to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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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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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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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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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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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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