Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
B. C. FORBESAn idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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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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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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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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