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- If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.
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- If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
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- Success isn't necessarily permanent - but neither is failure.
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- Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
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- In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
- Hendrik W. Van Loon
- Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.
- Clement Stone
- People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
- Samuel Smiles
- Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
- David Sarnoff
- One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.
- Josephine Preston Peabody
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