Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
B. C. FORBESVitally 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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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