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. FORBESTurn 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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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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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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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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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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 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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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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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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