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"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."
"The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it."
"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after."
"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it."
"No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it."
"The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world."
"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."
"Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions."
"Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands."
"If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success."
"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."
"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."
"Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies."
"The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day."
"Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there."
"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress."
"As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life."
"I never give anyone just one congratulation. Congratulations are always plural. They are similar to grapes."
"It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator."