Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. FORBESHow you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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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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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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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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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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