When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
B. C. FORBESWhen it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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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 a mental cancer.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The 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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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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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