Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
B. C. FORBESWork is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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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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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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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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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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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