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

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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Today Tomorrow Worry
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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Courage Inspirational Perseverance
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Important Race Speed
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
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
Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Intelligent Men Opportunity
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Decision Judgement Perfect
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Sleep Tired Workout
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Inspirational Motivational Opportunity
…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Adventure Destiny Sports
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Anger God Plato
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Blow Effort Fate
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men
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
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
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
Plan your work – work your plan
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Plan Success Work
If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
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Directors Inspire United States
Bragging often precedes begging.
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Begging Bragging
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Current Electric Enthusiasm Progress
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow

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