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.
B. C. FORBESThe man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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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 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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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. 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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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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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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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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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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To make headway, improve your head.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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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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