Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
B. C. FORBESCheerfulness 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.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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 way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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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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