The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
B. C. FORBESHistory 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 man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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How 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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Bragging often precedes begging.
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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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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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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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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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