Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
B. C. FORBESThe bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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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…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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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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