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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Encouragement People Real
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
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
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Important Race Speed
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Business Late Life Too
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
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can
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
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Inferiority Jealousy

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