Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
B. C. FORBESPlan your work – work your plan
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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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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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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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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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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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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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