We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
B. C. FORBESThe men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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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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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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