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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.

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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Brother Growing Up Successful
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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Friendship Loyalty True Friend
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Fall Inspirational Spring
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Manners Moral People
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
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
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Men Patience Reality
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
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
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
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
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
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
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Bigs Idea Trouble
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

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