The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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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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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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