Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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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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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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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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