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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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Gains Practice Virtue
Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Careers
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
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
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Manners Moral People
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
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
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
Bragging often precedes begging.
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Begging Bragging
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Brother Growing Up Successful
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Bigs Idea Trouble
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong

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