The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. FORBESUpon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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