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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

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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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Character Honesty Men
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Determination Perseverance Self
Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Giving Moving Thinking
Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Careers
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Done Effort Yield
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Golf Hazard Life
Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Cost Men Self
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
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
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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Friendship Loyalty True Friend
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Doe Inspire Unselfishness
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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