There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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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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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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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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