Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
B. C. FORBESThe 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.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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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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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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