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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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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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Effort Goal Two
Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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All Ends Things Time
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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Determination Exercise Fighting
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Confidence Courage Faith
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Known Sweetest
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
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Inspirational Motivational Opportunity
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Business Driven Order
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Men Self Simplicity
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
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Release Vacation Welcome

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