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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
To make headway, improve your head.
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Habit Headway Make Work
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Important Persistence Race
Bragging often precedes begging.
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Begging Bragging
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Confidence Courage Fear
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
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
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
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Bigs Idea Trouble
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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Biblical Humble Responsibility
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Complaining Men Opportunity
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
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

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