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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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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
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
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Men Self Simplicity
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Army Selfishness Unhappiness
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Known Sweetest
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
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
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Belief Character Honesty
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Business Satisfaction Yield
Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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All Ends Things Time
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Generosity Joy Selfishness
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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