It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
B. C. FORBESSelfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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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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Enthusiasm 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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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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