A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
B. C. FORBESThe man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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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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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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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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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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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