Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. FORBESHe who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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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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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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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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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?
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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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 most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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