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.
B. C. FORBESThere is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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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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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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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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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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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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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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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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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