The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. FORBESJealousy… is a mental cancer.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It 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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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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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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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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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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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.
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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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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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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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