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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Basketball Goal Trying
When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
…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.
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Adventure Destiny Sports
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Greed Life World
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Business Real Riches
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Acceptance Pay Price Self
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Inspirational Motivational Opportunity
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
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.
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Confidence Courage Faith
If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Today Tomorrow Worry
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work

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