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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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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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Democracy Doe Progress
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Greed Life World
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Done Effort Yield
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Business Late Life Too
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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Biblical Humble Responsibility
…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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Adventure Destiny Sports
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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Leadership Men Success
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Honesty Inspirational Mind
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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Hands Pumps Work
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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Knowledge Men Wisdom
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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Basketball Goal Trying
We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Happiness Selfishness Suicidal
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
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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Cost Men Self

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