Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
B. C. FORBESThe man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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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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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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To make headway, improve your head.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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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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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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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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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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