Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
B. C. FORBESIn the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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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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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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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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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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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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