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…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.

B. C. Forbes

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
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Decision Judgement Perfect
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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Life Normal Who Cares
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Cost Men Self
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Anger God Plato
To make headway, improve your head.
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Habit Headway Make Work
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Business Real Riches
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Honesty Inspirational Mind
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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Determination Fate Lying
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
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf

…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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…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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