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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
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
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Business Real Riches
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
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
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Children Fate Inspirational
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Golf Hazard Life
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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Biblical Humble Responsibility
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
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Blow Effort Fate
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
Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Found Success Years
Bragging often precedes begging.
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Begging Bragging

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