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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.

B. C. Forbes

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
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
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
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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Hands Justice Men
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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Friendship Loyalty True Friend
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Business Late Life Too
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Careers
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Bigs Idea Trouble
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Anger God Plato
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Done Effort Yield
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
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
Plan your work – work your plan
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Plan Success Work
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
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
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
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work
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
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 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
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
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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Biblical Humble Responsibility
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

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