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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Important Persistence Race
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
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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Encouragement People Real
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
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Blow Effort Fate
Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Intelligent Men Opportunity
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
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
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
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Golf Hazard Life
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow

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