Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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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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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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…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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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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