Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
B. C. FORBESTime mends all, ends all things earthly.
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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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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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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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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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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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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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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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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To make headway, improve your head.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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