History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. FORBESActing without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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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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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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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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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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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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