Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B. C. FORBESTime mends all, ends all things earthly.
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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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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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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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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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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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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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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 real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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