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Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand. ”
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability. ”
Wealth flows from energy and ideas. ”
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right. ”
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ”
An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court. ”
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it. ”
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine. ”
No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ”
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ”