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The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
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In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what a certain spore was. Finally he said, "It is this, for if it isn't, then what is it?" And all during his life he was never able to forget that he had been guilty of this unscientific attitude, for science is founded on certitude, not assumption.
Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
