Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
B. C. FORBESIt’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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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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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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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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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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