There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
B. C. FORBESMoney, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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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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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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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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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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