The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
B. C. FORBESThe real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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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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The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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Bragging often precedes begging.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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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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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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