If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
B. C. FORBESWhat you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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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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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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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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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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