I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
B. C. FORBESThe truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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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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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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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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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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