There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
B. C. FORBESActing without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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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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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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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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