Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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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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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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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