The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. 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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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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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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 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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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