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.
B. C. FORBESWhat you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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