Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B. C. FORBESReal riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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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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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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