Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B. C. FORBESWhen it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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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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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. 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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