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

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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
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Doe Inspire Unselfishness
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Confidence Courage Fear
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
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Honesty Inspirational Mind
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men
When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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Biblical Humble Responsibility
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
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
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
If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
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Directors Inspire United States
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

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