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Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told,
A truth still sacred, and believed of old,
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Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told,
A truth still sacred, and believed of old,
That no success attends on spears and swords
Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord's?
One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is
going.
One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is
going.
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, read more
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to
themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
[Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non
obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi
vindicant potestates.]
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
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Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, God be thanked! I do not.
