Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
B. C. FORBESWork is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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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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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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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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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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 succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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The 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 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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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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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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