The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. FORBESThe Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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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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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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 known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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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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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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