The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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