Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
B. C. FORBESBetter to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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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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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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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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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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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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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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