It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
B. C. FORBESTo 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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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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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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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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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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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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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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