Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
B. C. FORBESNext to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Many 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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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