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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
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
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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Business Retirement Success
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
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
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business Inspiration Motivation
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Bargaining Satisfaction Yield
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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Leadership Men Success
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men
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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Determination Exercise Fighting
…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
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Brother Growing Up Successful
Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Found Success Years
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Bigs Idea Trouble

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