You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
B. C. FORBESMoney, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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