Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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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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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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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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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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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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 fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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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 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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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