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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.

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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Brother Growing Up Successful
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business Inspiration Motivation
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men
…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 is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Europe Feet Hands
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Known Sweetest
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
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Anger God Plato
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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Life Normal Who Cares
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
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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Intelligent Men Opportunity
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Confidence Courage Faith
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Bigs Idea Trouble
Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Character Honesty Men

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