The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.

By.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

By.Henry Ford

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I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

By.Henry David Thoreau

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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

By.Henry David Thoreau

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I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

By.Helen Keller

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It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

By.Havelock Ellis

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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

By.George Washington Carver

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

By.G. K. Chesterton

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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

By.Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

By.Frank Lloyd Wright

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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

By.Frank Lloyd Wright

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Success is counted sweetestBy those who ne'er succeed.To comprehend a nectarRequires sorest need.

By.Emily Dickinson

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One ship sails East,And another West,By the self-same winds that blow,Tis the set of the sailsAnd not the gales,That tells the way we go.

By.Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and evey man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.

By.Elbert Hubbard

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My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

By.Elaine Maxwell

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

By.Demosthenes

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A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

By.David Brinkley

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Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

By.Corita Kent

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Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

By.Corita Kent

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

By.Coco Chanel

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Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

By.Chet Atkins

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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

By.Bruce Feirstein

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Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

By.Bernadette Devlin

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There are no gains without pains.

By.Benjamin Franklin

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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

By.Benjamin Disraeli

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All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you've got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you're going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

By.Barbara Jordan

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Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.

By.Arie de Gues

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To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

By.Anna Pavlova

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If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

By.Alex Noble

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

By.Albert Schweitzer

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Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

By.Albert Einstein

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The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavor -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

By.Albert Einstein

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

By.Abraham Lincoln

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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

By.Peter F. Drucker

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

By FranÇOis De La Rochefoucauld

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and ;Independence.

By Edward Rickenbacker

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.

By Jean Paul Richter

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Character is what you are in the dark.

By Dwight Moody

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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

By W. Somerset Maugham

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It's good to shut up sometimes.

By Marcel Marceau

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Bluntness is a virtue.

By Allison Ling

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

By G. C. Lichtenberg

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

By Martin Luther King Jr.

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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

By Ken Keys

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Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

By Alphonse Karr

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The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

By John Holt

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Man's character is his fate.

By Heraclitus

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

By Robert Freeman

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To measure the man, measure his heart.

By Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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