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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

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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
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Manners Moral People
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
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
Bragging often precedes begging.
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Begging Bragging
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Business Late Life Too
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Determination Perseverance Self
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Doe Inspire Unselfishness
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Brother Growing Up Successful
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Inferiority Jealousy
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
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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