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How can you judge others accurately if you have not learned to judge yourself accurately?
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Did you cheat the other fellow, or yourself? Be thoughtful before you answer.
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The person who thinks before he acts seldom has to apologize for his acts.
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Trying to convince a man who doesn't think is love's labor lost.
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Thinking your way through your problems is safer than wishing your way through.
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The fellow who thinks the whole world is wrong might be surprised at what the world thinks of him.
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Many men who think they have arrived are surprised to learn that they have been traveling in reverse gear.
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You may as well not listen if you don't think. Be careful not to tangle with the man who thinks before he acts.
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Watch the man ahead of you and you'll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.
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If you wish a job done promptly and well, get a busy man to do it. The idle man knows too many substitutes and short cuts.
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The man who doesn't reach decisions promptly when he has all necessary facts in hand cannot be depended on to carry out decisions after he makes them.
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The man who only does enough work to ‘get by’ seldom gets much more than ‘by.’
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Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action. It takes more than a name on a church membership to make a Christian.
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You can do it if you believe you can.
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A man comes finally to believe anything he tells himself often enough even if it is not true.
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If you don't believe it yourself, don't ask anyone else to do so.
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Might throws itself on the side of those who believe in right.
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The common "hobo" works harder and pays more for what he gets out of life than any other person, but he kids himself into believing he is getting something for nothing.
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Be cautious of the man from whom dogs and children shrink with fear.
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Over-caution is as bad as no caution. It makes other people suspicious.
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Look carefully to see if the pasture on the other side of the fence appears greener, for there may be plenty of thistles mixed with the grass.
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When a man says: "They say so and so," ask him to name who "they" are and watch him squirm with embarrassment.
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When a stranger appears too eager to do something for you, take care that he doesn't do something to you.
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Look the fellow over carefully who is trying to sell you his way of life, to make sure his way is as good as yours.
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Beware of the fellow who tries to kid you into believing he is doing so much better than you.
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Render more service and better service than is expected of you if you wish to attract quick and permanent promotion.
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Every time you perform a task, try to excel your last performance, and very soon you will excel those around you.
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Who told you it couldn't be done, and what great achievements has he performed that qualified him to set up limitations for you?
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Henry Ford is reported to have offered twenty-five thousand dollars to anyone who would show him how to save a single bolt and nut on each automobile he made.
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Show me how to save a thin dime on any operation in the plant and I'll show you how to get quick and adequate promotion.
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Where will you be and what will you be ten years from now if you keep on the way you are going?
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Never tear down anything unless you are prepared to build something better in its place.
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In the hour of defeat many men have discovered their true greatness by accepting defeat only as a challenge to try again.
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What do you want from life and what have you to give in return that entitles you to it?
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The successful man keeps his mind fixed on what he wants in life - not what he doesn't want.
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Peggy Joyce Hopkins married four millionaires, one after another, because she knew what she wanted and refused to accept substitutes.
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Never mind what you have done in the past. What are you going to do in the future?
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The only permanent thing in the entire universe is that which a man sets up in his own mind.
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If you don't know what you want from life, what do you think you will get?
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Be sure about what you want from life and doubly sure of what you have to give in return.
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