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.
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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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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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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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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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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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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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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