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Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Related topics: Motivational
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius 
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
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They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
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If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
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The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
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The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
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My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
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To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
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