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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
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
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
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Men Self Simplicity
…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
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
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
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
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
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Men Patience Reality
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
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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