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. FORBESMadame 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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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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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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