Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
B. C. FORBESGolf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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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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