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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

B. C. Forbes

Bragging often precedes begging.
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Begging Bragging
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
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
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Known Sweetest
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Belief Character Honesty
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Golf Hazard Life
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck
To make headway, improve your head.
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Habit Headway Make Work
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
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
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Done Effort Yield
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work

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