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- ...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny,…
- First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth…
- For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden…
- Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged…
- Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!
- Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and…
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