The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. FORBESThere 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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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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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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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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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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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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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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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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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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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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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