There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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We are all salesmen every day of our lives.
There are no hard times for good ideas.
Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity not one in twenty.
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Change before you have to.
The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company. You own your career!
Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a ‘must’ and a ‘want.’