Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. FORBESHonesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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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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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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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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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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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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