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Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical metho...

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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the invento...

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School will bring you more success than marriage.

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You'r...

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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or...

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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and...

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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of b...

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to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory com...

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Og MandinoThe Greatest Salesman in the World

Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.

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Og MandinoThe Greatest Salesman in the World

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible.All are of no value unless they ...

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Og MandinoThe Greatest Salesman in the World

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and ...

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To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom you do everything to gain some ri...

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Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on somethin...

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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your f...

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But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to a...

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Fame has only the span of the day they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth somet...

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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune it is also the basi...

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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune it is also the basi...

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Wrong things never lead to success. If a man acts wrongly and succeeds, that is not the way. Without...

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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of a seed that yo...

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God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Mas...

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In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a “quick return to power,” forg...

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Paulo FreirePedagogy of the Oppressed

I don't eat junk food and I don't think junk thoughts.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all...

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Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living w...

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Success for the striver washes away the effort of striving.

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids...

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Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on y...

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Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particul...

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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the...

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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory...

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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

Success which is something so simple in the end is made up of thousands of things we never fully ...

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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent t...

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What is success? To laugh often and much To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection...

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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to ...

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Self-trust is the first secret of success.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have ...

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but a...

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Ralph Waldo EmersonJournals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn i...

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No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any m...

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If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always p...

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The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the ri...

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The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members...

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There is some consolation in the fact that even though your dreams don't come true neither do your...

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A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between suc...

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Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they ...

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Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you...

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Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and ...

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Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to imp...

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to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

I don’t believe it can be taught as if it were a recipe. There aren’t ingredients and techniques tha...

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Richard BransonLosing My Virginity: How I've Survived

Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many le...

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Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the stu...

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Richard HammingThe Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this ...

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Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on go...

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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientis...

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, se...

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A minute’s success pays the failure of years.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is n...

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It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add ...

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through pol...

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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resent...

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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through pol...

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When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resent...

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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resent...

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Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through pol...

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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through pol...

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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter