Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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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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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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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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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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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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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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