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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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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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Democracy Doe Progress
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Army Selfishness Unhappiness
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Bigs Idea Trouble
When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck
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
To make headway, improve your head.
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Habit Headway Make Work
Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Intelligent Men Opportunity
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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Hands Pumps Work
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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Hands Justice Men

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

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