The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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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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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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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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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 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.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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To make headway, improve your head.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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