Nothing venture, nothing have.
—French proverb
Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
—John D. Rockefeller
5
When opportunity knocks, open the door.
—European proverb
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
—Thomas Edison
6
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
—Will Rogers
7
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One cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only
work that truly satisfies.
—Bette Davis, 1962
All work is noble; work is alone noble.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1843
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
—Anonymous
8
It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere
else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
—Lewis Carroll, 1865
All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.
—Edward Gibbon, 1776
He who does not move forward, goes backward.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797
The world belongs to the energetic. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of
the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1876
5
As quoted, without a date, by Peter Collier and David Horowitz in 1937.
6
As quoted, without a date, by John L. Mason in 1990.
7
As quoted, without a date, by A. S. Migs Damiani in 1998.
8
This maxim, whose unauthored versions may be found in press at least as early as in 1925, was
later paraphrased by many, including Vince Lombardi.
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