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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.

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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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Business Retirement Success
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
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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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.
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Found Success Years
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.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Manners Moral People
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.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Army Selfishness Unhappiness
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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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.
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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.
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