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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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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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All Ends Things Time
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Done Effort Yield
Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Cost Men Self
Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Belief Character Honesty
Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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Gains Practice Virtue
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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Fun Leadership Sports
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Business Late Life Too
Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Found Success Years
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Luck Men Opportunity
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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Knowledge Men Wisdom
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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Men People Self
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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Confidence Courage Faith
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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Complaining Men Opportunity

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