The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
B. C. FORBESEnthusiasm 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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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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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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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