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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

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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
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Business Late Life Too
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
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
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
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
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
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
…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
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Doe Inspire Unselfishness
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Important Persistence Race
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Known Sweetest
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Confidence Courage Faith

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