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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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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Sleep Tired Workout
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Done Effort Yield
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Important Race Speed
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
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
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
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Confidence Courage Fear
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Generosity Joy Selfishness
…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
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Children Fate Inspirational
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Bargaining Satisfaction Yield

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