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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
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
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Business Satisfaction Yield
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Doe Inspire Unselfishness
…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
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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Determination Exercise Fighting
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Fall Inspirational Spring
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Acceptance Pay Price Self
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Sleep Tired Workout
The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Determination Dream People
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
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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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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