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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Complaining Men Opportunity
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Greed Life World
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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Knowledge Men Wisdom
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Luck Men Opportunity
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
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
I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Encouragement People Real
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Golf Hazard Life
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
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
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Inferiority Jealousy
Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Belief Character Honesty
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck

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