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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
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
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
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
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
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
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
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
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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Hands Justice Men
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Done Effort Yield
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Belief Character Honesty
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Inferiority Jealousy
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

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

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