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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Brother Growing Up Successful
If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Deal Good Party
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck
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
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
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
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Release Vacation Welcome
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
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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Knowledge Men Wisdom
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Manners Moral People
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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Gains Practice Virtue
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
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Generosity Joy Selfishness

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