It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
B. C. FORBESIt 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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Plan your work – work your plan
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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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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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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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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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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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