Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
B. C. FORBESThe man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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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.
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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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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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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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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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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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