Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
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There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
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A little twist to the usual, ‘Everything comes to he who waits’. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
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The business schools reward difficult complex behaviour more than simple behaviour, but simple behaviour is more effective.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.
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Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better.
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
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Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.
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If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.
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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
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I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.
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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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Men are born to succeed, not fail.
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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.
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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.
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Life, they urge, would be intolerable if men were to be guided in all they did by reason and reason only.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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Logic is like the sword—those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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If you have the guts to follow the risk, however, life opens, opens, opens up all along the line.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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It's never just a game when you're winning.
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Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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Eighty percent of success is showing up.
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A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.
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Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
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If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed there's so little competition.
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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