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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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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Known Sweetest
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business Inspiration Motivation
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Europe Feet Hands
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Bigs Idea Trouble
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Army Selfishness Unhappiness
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
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
The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Biblical Blessed Home
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
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
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
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Basketball Goal Trying
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Children Fate Inspirational
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Important Race Speed
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
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
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
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Careers
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

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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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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