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A shady business never yields a sunny life.

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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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The man who has done his level best is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

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

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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first rate truck driver than a tenth rate executive.

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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

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

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Without self respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self respect is not success, for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self respect.

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Jealousy is a mental cancer.

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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

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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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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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He who has faith has an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

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

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

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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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

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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

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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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To make headway, improve your head.

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

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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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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

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

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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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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person 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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The man who has done his level best. Is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

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