The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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 man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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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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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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