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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?

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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
…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
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Luck Men Opportunity
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Generosity Joy Selfishness
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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Inspirational Motivational Success
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
Plan your work – work your plan
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Plan Success Work
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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