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The world is sad enough without your woe.
[ Complaining ]
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The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character, Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.
[ Growth ]
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
[ Expectation ]
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
[ Expectation ]
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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
[ Habit ]
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The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
[ Habit ]
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
[ Confidence ]
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
[ Ability ]
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
[ Achievement ]
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There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.
[ Perseverance ]
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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
[ Cooperation ]
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We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
[ Control ]
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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
[ Enjoyment ]
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
[ Enjoyment ]
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
[ Enjoyment ]
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
[ Enjoyment ]
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
[ Enjoyment ]
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
[ Praise ]
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
[ Praise ]
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
[ Honesty ]
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