Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. FORBESActing without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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 man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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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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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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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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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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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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