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Ability
Engrave this Quote The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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Action(s)
Engrave this Quote What you are will show in what you do.
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Bravery
Engrave this Quote Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
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Control
Engrave this Quote What man's mind can create, man's character can control.
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Discontent
Engrave this Quote Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
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Effort
Engrave this Quote There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.
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Excellence
Engrave this Quote I start where the last man left off.
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Engrave this Quote There's a way to do better... find it.
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Excess
Engrave this Quote Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
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Failure
Engrave this Quote Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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Engrave this Quote I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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Genius
Engrave this Quote His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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Engrave this Quote Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Ideas
Engrave this Quote The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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Engrave this Quote To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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Engrave this Quote Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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Inventing, Inventions
Engrave this Quote I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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Engrave this Quote Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
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Knowledge
Engrave this Quote We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
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Life
Engrave this Quote The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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Mankind, Man
Engrave this Quote The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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Maturity
Engrave this Quote Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
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Mind, the
Engrave this Quote The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around
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Miracles
Engrave this Quote I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists -- proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
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Opportunity
Engrave this Quote There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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Engrave this Quote Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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Patience
Engrave this Quote Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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Persistence
Engrave this Quote Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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Engrave this Quote Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.
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Engrave this Quote When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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Engrave this Quote Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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Pleasure
Engrave this Quote I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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Potential
Engrave this Quote If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
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Progress
Engrave this Quote Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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Results
Engrave this Quote Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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Rules
Engrave this Quote Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something.
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Satisfaction
Engrave this Quote Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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Solitude
Engrave this Quote The best thinking has been done in solitude.
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Success & Failure
Engrave this Quote One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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Engrave this Quote I have not failed. I
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Thought
Engrave this Quote There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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Engrave this Quote It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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Value
Engrave this Quote To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
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Work
Engrave this Quote I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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Engrave this Quote I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
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Engrave this Quote There is no substitute for hard work.
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Engrave this Quote Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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-Thomas Alva Edison, One of the many proverbs/sayings written by Thomas Edison.
Worry
Engrave this Quote As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Worth
Engrave this Quote Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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