Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

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Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

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Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.

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Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

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Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.

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Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

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Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

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Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

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