Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
B. C. FORBESThere is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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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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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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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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