No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
B. C. FORBESBackboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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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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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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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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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