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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…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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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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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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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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