An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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There 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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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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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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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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