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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Manners Moral People
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Greed Life World
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
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
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
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
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
To make headway, improve your head.
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Habit Headway Make Work
When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Careers
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
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
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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Courage Inspirational Perseverance
The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Biblical Blessed Home
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
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
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Doe Inspire Unselfishness
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Current Electric Enthusiasm Progress
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
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
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business Inspiration Motivation
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Luck Men Opportunity

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