There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.

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"I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

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"Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

Empowerment

"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

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"I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!"

- Madam C.J. Walker

Ambition

""Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.""

- Madam C.J. Walker

Ambition

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"The effort you invest today is the pride you feel tomorrow."

- Unknown

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- Thomas Jefferson

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- Harry Golden

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"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."

- Michael Larsen

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"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

- Colin Powell

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