Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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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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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Plan your work – work your plan
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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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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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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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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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If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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