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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

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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
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
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
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
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
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
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
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Bargaining Satisfaction Yield
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
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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All Ends Things Time
Plan your work – work your plan
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Plan Success Work
Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Intelligent Men Opportunity

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

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