The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
B. C. FORBESBragging often precedes begging.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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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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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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