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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Cost Men Self
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
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
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Business Real Riches
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
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
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
To make headway, improve your head.
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Habit Headway Make Work
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Bargaining Satisfaction Yield
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
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Complaining Men Opportunity
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
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Business Late Life Too
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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Knowledge Men Wisdom
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

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