When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
B. C. FORBESHonesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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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.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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.
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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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