An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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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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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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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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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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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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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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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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I 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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