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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

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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
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
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Basketball Goal Trying
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Golf Hazard Life
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Doe Inspire Unselfishness
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Important Race Speed
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Business Driven Order
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
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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Hands Pumps Work
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business Inspiration Motivation
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Men Self Simplicity
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Blow Effort Fate
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Done Effort Yield
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph

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