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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
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
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Belief Character Honesty
It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Europe Feet Hands
Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Giving Moving Thinking
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Important Race Speed
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Biblical Blessed Home
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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Democracy Doe Progress
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Determination Perseverance Self
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Basketball Goal Trying
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Determination Fate Lying
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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