It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
B. C. FORBESAny 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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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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It 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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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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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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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Bragging often precedes begging.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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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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