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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
Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Character Honesty Men
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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Leadership Men Success
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
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
…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
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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Hands Justice Men
Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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All Ends Things Time
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Europe Feet Hands
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
If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
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Directors Inspire United States
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return

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