The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
B. C. FORBESI have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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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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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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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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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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