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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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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.
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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.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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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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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.
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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
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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.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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