How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
B. C. FORBESThe man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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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 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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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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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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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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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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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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