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

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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
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
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
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
The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Determination Dream People
If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Today Tomorrow Worry
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
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 you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business Inspiration Motivation
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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Democracy Doe Progress
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
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Golf Hazard Life
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Children Fate Inspirational
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. 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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Fun Leadership Sports
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Bigs Idea Trouble
Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Careers
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Manners Moral People
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
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
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
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Release Vacation Welcome
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
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Anger God Plato
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

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