Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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To make headway, improve your head.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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