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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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.
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!
We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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.
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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.
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.
Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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.
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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.
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.
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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.
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.
There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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.
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.
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.
...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.