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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Cost Men Self
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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Democracy Doe Progress
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
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
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Happiness Selfishness Suicidal
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Belief Character Honesty
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Anger God Plato
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
When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Fall Inspirational Spring
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Confidence Courage Fear

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