Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
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Confucius
Philosopher
"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."
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"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."
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"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."
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"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."
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"Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out."
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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."
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"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."
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"Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells."
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"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."
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"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another."
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"Success is a great deodorant."
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"No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes."
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"Enthusiasm is the engine of success."
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"I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really."
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"Success has always been a great liar."
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"The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it."
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"Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."
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"Success and failure are equally disastrous."
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"There is no success without hardship."
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"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
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"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal."
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