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I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present mo...

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Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remark...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

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Edith WhartonThe Custom of the Country

Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things ...

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The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not ...

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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorio...

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Some men succeed by what they know some by what they do and a few by what they are.

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathemati...

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There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know i...

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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience w...

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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that ...

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You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing t...

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Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a c...

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Eleanor RooseveltYou Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could...

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When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when...

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Ellen DeGeneresSeriously... I'm Kidding

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

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Ellen DeGeneresSeriously... I'm Kidding

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when...

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If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where...

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Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed.

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Let me remind you of what got me this far, picture me quitting, now draw a circle around it and put ...

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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot and to behav...

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I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to thi...

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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows an...

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If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because ...

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Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Wher...

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Eugene O'NeillLong Day's Journey Into Night

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Success in this world depends on knowing exactly how little effort each job is worth...distribution ...

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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is de...

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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best...

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

We'll all be failures?""Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and...

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F. Scott FitzgeraldBabylon Revisited and Other Stories

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and ...

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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. Thi...

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Success didn't spoil me I've always been insufferable.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... f...

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The best revenge is massive success.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor an...

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Success has always been a great liar.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ...

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Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman,...

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The phrase "it's better to be lucky than good" must be one of the most ridiculous homilies ever utte...

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Garry KasparovDeep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

Before I ever knew what the word Entrepeneur was, I realized in America and in the Western part of ...

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Women, you have all this power, I’m telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred ...

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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...

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I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.

My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...

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I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious re...

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When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failur...

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Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it...

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Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it I do...

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If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you l...

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I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money ...

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The word 'success' - who's defining it? It's about whether or not it makes me feel good. Four billio...

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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Freedom, I thought, comes only to the successful

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Graham GreeneTravels With My Aunt

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justi...

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Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.

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Guy KawasakiThe Art of the Start: The Time-Tested

Simply as an exercise in efficient politics, Obama '08 rewrote the textbook. His accomplishment was ...

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Success is a relative thing―and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavi...

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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these bles...

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Failure is a part of success.

The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.

All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves not to allow their am...

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For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually...

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Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an in...

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can ...

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an in...

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The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life which he...

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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he ...

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It is not enough to be busy so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.