Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
B. C. FORBESIt’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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Plan your work – work your plan
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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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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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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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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s 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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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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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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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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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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