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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
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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.
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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