Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
B. C. FORBESIt’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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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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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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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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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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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