Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
B. C. FORBESActing without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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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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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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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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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Any 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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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