There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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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 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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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?
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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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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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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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 Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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