Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B. C. FORBESWork is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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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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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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