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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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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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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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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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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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