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Life’s not easy…don’t try and make it that way. It’s not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, it won’t ever be.
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Most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get em.
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Your fears must be mastered before you can win in any worthwhile undertaking in life.
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No one may become a real leader in any walk of life without practicing the habit of doing more work and better work than that for which he is paid.
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It is doubtful whether a person could be a failure while engaged in work which he liked best.
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When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, SMILE! This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.
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The man who labors without a definite purpose that is backed up by a definite plan for its attainment, resembles the ship that has lost its rudder.
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TIME is a Master Worker that heals the wounds of temporary defeat; equalizes the inequalities, and rights the wrongs of the world. There is nothing ‘impossible’ with time!
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This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being, and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.
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Men who are successful always seek the company of others who are successful, while men who are on the ragged side of life always seek the company of those who are in similar circumstances.
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First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
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True magnanimity consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Failure often leads a man to success by arousing his latent energy, by firing a dormant purpose, by awakening powers which were sleeping.
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Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.
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No tyranny of circumstances can permanently imprison a determined will.
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Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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No one will insist upon your rights while you yourself doubt that you have any.
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success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price, and it is yours.
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The athlete trains for his race; and the mind must be put into training if one will win life's race.
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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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To stick to a thing till you are master, is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.
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No matter if you have lost your property, your health, your reputation even, there is always hope for the man who keeps a firm faith in himself and looks up.
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Many of us imprison ourselves in the narrow limited poverty thought, and then, like caged eagles trying in vain to get free, we beat out our wings against the bars we have ourselves put up.