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. FORBESTriumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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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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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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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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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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