Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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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 is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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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 man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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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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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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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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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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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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