Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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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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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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