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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.

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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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Gains Practice Virtue
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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Life Normal Who Cares
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
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Important Persistence Race
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
Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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All Ends Things Time
To make headway, improve your head.
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Habit Headway Make Work
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
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
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Anger God Plato
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
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
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Done Effort Yield
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
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

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