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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back

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Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

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Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

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The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.

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If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

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There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.

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If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.

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Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

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Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.

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Anybody who accepts mediocrity - in school, on the job, in life - is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

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