The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
B. C. FORBESBetter to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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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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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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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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Bragging often precedes begging.
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