Bragging often precedes begging.
B. C. FORBESWhen it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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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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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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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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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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