The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
B. C. FORBESIt is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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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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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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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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