Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
B. C. FORBESThe 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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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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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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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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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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