Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
B. C. FORBESThe 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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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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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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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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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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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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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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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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