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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Elbert Hubbard

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Act Generosity Mean
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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Ability Discipline Feeling Yourself
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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Generosity Growth Love Way Wisdom
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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Fools Limitation Man Wisdom
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Ability Rare Recognition Wisdom
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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Best Day Goodness Preparation Work
All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Charity Power Production Salary
Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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Advice Failure Himself Man
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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Accomplishment Day Impossible Oneself
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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Afraid Difficult Hate Jealous Live Myself Obstacle
Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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Appearance Cloud Man Storm Wisdom
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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Business Education Fall Himself Man Marriage Woman
We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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Expectation Finding Search
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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Deep Impossible Natural Understand Wisdom
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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Advice People Thinking
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Act Genius Power Right Time

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

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Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

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