It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
B. C. FORBESAn idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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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.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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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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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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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