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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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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Adventure Destiny Sports
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 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
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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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
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Done Effort Yield
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
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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Gains Practice Virtue
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Complaining Men Opportunity
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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