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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Confidence Courage Fear
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Decision Judgement Perfect
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
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
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Basketball Goal Trying
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
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 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
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Brother Growing Up Successful
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can
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
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Business Driven Order
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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Courage Inspirational Perseverance

A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

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