Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
B. C. FORBESGolf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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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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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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