It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
B. C. FORBESBackboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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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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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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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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