Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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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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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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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