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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Important Race Speed
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Confidence Courage Faith
Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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All Ends Things Time
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
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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Hands Pumps Work
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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Determination Exercise Fighting
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Determination Fate Lying
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
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Known Sweetest
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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Business Satisfaction Yield
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
Plan your work – work your plan
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Plan Success Work
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Today Tomorrow Worry
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Europe Feet Hands
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
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Sleep Tired Workout
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Decision Judgement Perfect
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
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Confidence Courage Fear
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception

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