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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Today Tomorrow Worry
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Bargaining Satisfaction Yield
If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
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Directors Inspire United States
Bragging often precedes begging.
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Begging Bragging
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
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
…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
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
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
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
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Fun Leadership Sports
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Decision Judgement Perfect
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business Inspiration Motivation
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
To make headway, improve your head.
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Habit Headway Make Work
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
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
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
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
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Business Driven Order
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow

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