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• Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!

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  Mind, Life Is, Tranquility

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• Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption.

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  Trust, Time, Thinking

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

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  Motivational, Bitter, Defeat

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• It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

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  Effort, Done, Links

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Your mind grows through use.

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  Goal, Mind, Use

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• If you are willing, great things are possible to you.

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  Great Things, Willing, Ifs

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

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  Work, Knowing, Tasks

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality you must have interest outside of your regular vocation that will serve to balance your business responsibilities.

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  Business, Responsibility, Play

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• Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

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  Confidence, Learning, Thinking

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.

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  Happiness, Way, Harmony

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• The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

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  Book, Reading, Character

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Wise Words

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• Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

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  Believe, Giving, Deception

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• A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.

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  Rumor, Checks, Genuine

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• It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.

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  Lying, Years, Experience

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time.

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  Business, Men, Hands

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• When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.

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  Determination, Work, Feelings

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• You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

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  Integrity, Men, World

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

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  Book, Reading, Needs

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Better untaught than ill-taught.

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  Education, Taught, Ill

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• The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.

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  Happiness, Kindness, Practice

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• Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it

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  Judgement, Judgment, Trustworthy

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.

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  Inspirational, Doors, Today

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

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  Wise, Guy, Way

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• Cultivate the giving habit as you do the saving habit.

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  Giving, Saving, Habit

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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