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.
B. C. FORBESIf the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Anything that 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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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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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