Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
B. C. FORBESNext to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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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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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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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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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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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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