Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
B. C. FORBESTo 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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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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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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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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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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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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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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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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