Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.
Plan your work - work your plan
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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.
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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.
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in the world. The popular notion is that a youth's progress depends upon how he acts during his working hours. It doesn't. It depends far more upon how he utilizes his leisure...If he spends it in harmless idleness, he is likely to be kept on the payroll, but that will be about all. If he diligently utilizes his own time...to fit himself for more responsible duties, then the greater responsibilities - and greater rewards - are almost certain to come to him.
You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.
It's so much easier to do good than to be good.
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!
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.
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
Bragging often precedes begging.
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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