Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment."
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Rosalind Franklin
Chemist, X-ray Crystallographer
"In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind."
DJ Khaled
Music Producer
"To succeed, you must believe. When you believe, you will succeed."
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Statesman, Founder of Republic
"Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end."
Marcel Proust
Novelist
"When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest."
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"No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance."
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"With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls."
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"A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud."
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"When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed"
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"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
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"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
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"By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded."
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"It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds."
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"I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed."
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"It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined."
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"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed."
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"You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole."
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"We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed."
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"Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed."
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"In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem."
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"It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail."
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"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."
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"Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]"
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"The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering."
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"Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?"
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