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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

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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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Decision Judgement Perfect
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Men Patience Reality
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck
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
If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Today Tomorrow Worry
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
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
We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Happiness Selfishness Suicidal
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
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Generosity Joy Selfishness
There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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Men People Self
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
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
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

Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

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