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. FORBESA word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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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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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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