Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. FORBESSome people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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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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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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