Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
B. C. FORBESDifficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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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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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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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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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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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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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. 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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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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