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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.

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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Determination Dream People
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
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Anger God Plato
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
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
The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Life Normal Who Cares
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Known Sweetest
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Determination Perseverance Self
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
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
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
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
Bragging often precedes begging.
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Begging Bragging
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Complaining 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
There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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Men People Self
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Golf Hazard Life
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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Knowledge Men Wisdom
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Bigs Idea Trouble
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can

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