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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.

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Bragging often precedes begging.
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Begging Bragging
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Done Effort Yield
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Inferiority Jealousy
We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Happiness Selfishness Suicidal
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
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
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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Acceptance Pay Price Self
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
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
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Honesty Inspirational Mind
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Children Fate Inspirational
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Golf Hazard Life
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Business Late Life Too

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.

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