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.
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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…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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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