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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes …the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes 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.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes 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.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes 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.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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That He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.
Alan RedpathAlan Redpath In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.
Alan LakeinAlan Lakein In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.
Alan KulwickiAlan Kulwicki Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
Alan LakeinAlan Lakein Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.
Alan LakeinAlan Lakein You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities.
Alan LakeinAlan Lakein The Republican health care plan: don’t get sick.
Alan GraysonAlan Grayson if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.
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