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A shady business never yields a sunny life.

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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
There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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Effort Goal Two
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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Biblical Humble Responsibility
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Acceptance Pay Price Self
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
Plan your work – work your plan
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Plan Success Work
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
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 is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Credit Firsts Satisfaction
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 shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
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
If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Today Tomorrow Worry
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

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