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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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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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Encouragement People Real
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Business Driven Order
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
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Determination Fate Lying
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Brother Growing Up Successful
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Sleep Tired Workout
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Men Patience Reality
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Done Effort Yield
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
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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Life Normal Who Cares
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
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
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Decision Judgement Perfect
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Current Electric Enthusiasm Progress
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

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.

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