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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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
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
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Fall Inspirational Spring
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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Inspirational Motivational Success
When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
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
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Men Patience Reality
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Release Vacation Welcome
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
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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Men Self Simplicity
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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Leadership Men Success
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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Important Persistence Race
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Credit Firsts Satisfaction
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf

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