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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

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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
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Men Patience Reality
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
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
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Army Selfishness Unhappiness
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Business Satisfaction Yield
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
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
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield
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
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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Biblical Humble Responsibility
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
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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Biblical Blessed Home

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