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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Today Tomorrow Worry
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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Men People Self
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Manners Moral People
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Current Electric Enthusiasm Progress
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
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Luck Men Opportunity
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
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
…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
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
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Release Vacation Welcome

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