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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.

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The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.

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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?

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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.

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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

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If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.

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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.

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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.

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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

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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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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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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook

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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.

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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.

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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

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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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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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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

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Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

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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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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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