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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Determination Fate Lying
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Belief Character Honesty
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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Effort Goal Two
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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Encouragement People Real
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business Inspiration Motivation
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Known Sweetest
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
…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
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
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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Democracy Doe Progress

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