Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
B. C. FORBESOpportunity 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.
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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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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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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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