As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

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We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him.
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Afford Best Effort Himself Lose Need Urgent
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
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Benefit Community Desert Fail Library People Spring Thing
Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
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Ego Feed Help Hungry People Themselves Wealth
tall oaks from little acorns grow.
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Acorn Growth Little Oak Tall
You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.
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Climb Ladder Little Push Yourself
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
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Best Competition Department Ensure Fit Hard Individual Law Race Survive
TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.
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Achieve Common Fuel People Result Team Work
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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Happiness Success Want Yourself
No man becomes rich unless he enriches others
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Man Other Rich
Young man, make your name worth something.
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Inspirational Man Name One Liner Worth Young
There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
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Help People Try
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
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Bigot Dare Fool Himself Reason Slave
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
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Act Believe Big Forgive Give Inspirational Laugh Live Love Think Work Yourself
Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.
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Boy Core Enter Heart Myself Tear
air castles are often within our grasp late in life, but then they charm not.
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Air Castle Charm Grasp Late Life
All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.
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Alter Attitude Human Inspirational Live One Liner
It is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
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Body Class Deep Mind Money Pity Possess Rich Wretch
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
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Action Attention Growth Less Man Myself Old Pay
A man’s reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.
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Care Daily Diet Food Growth Man Mental Plan Program Read
All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Honor Self Harm Wound
Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.
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Dream Enjoy Garden Horizon Magic Man Outside Rose Tragedy
I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.
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Dust Myself Mystery Philosophy Solemn Sun Universe
Humanity is an organism, inherently rejecting all that is deleterious, that is, wrong, and absorbing after trial what is beneficial, that is, right
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Absorb Benefit Humanity Organism Reject Right Trial Wrong
Do real and permanent good in this world.
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Good Permanent Real World
A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
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Ability Acquire Man Mind Possession
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
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Approval Best Conscious Except Yourself
Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.
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Evolve Myself Rid Super Natural Theology Truth
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
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Consider Cradle Democracy Earth Letter Library Office Rank Wealth
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced
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Death Grace Man Rich
East or West Home is best.
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Best East Home West
Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
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Basket Egg Watch Yourself
The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.
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Freedom Happiness Herself Promise Pursue Realize Republic Wealth
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
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Alone Better Big Development Job People Realize Step Yourself
Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owing real estate.
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Millionaire Own Real Estate
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
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Impress Mediocre Motivation People Satisfy Talent
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
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Deep Man One Liner Oyster Shell
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes
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Command Energy Goal Happy Hope Inspire Liberate Thought Yourself
Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I will show you a winner everytime.
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Ability Average Desire Extraordinary Man Myself Winner
When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade.
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Fate Hands Lemon Lemonade Try
That best portion of a good man’s life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
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Best Good Kind Life Love Man Portion

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

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