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. FORBESKill time and you will kill your career.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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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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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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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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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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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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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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