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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

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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
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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Hands Justice Men
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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Courage Inspirational Perseverance
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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Inspirational Motivational Success
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Business Real Riches
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Men Patience Reality
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
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Release Vacation Welcome
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
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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Fun Leadership Sports
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Men Self Simplicity
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Sleep Tired Workout
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Honesty Inspirational Mind
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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Hands Pumps Work

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