Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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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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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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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.
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