"I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want."
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"Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith."
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"There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it."
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"We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful."
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"In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God."
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"The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness."
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"A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step - Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others."
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"Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were."
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"Nowadays, you can be yourself. You don't have to put on façade. You can be who you are and still be just as successful as the ones who put on the fake façade. You know, it's like reality is just as important as fiction."
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"I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks."
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"What I mean is, if you look at the behavior of an animal and ask, "Well, why did it do that?" and then consider the alternatives, those alternatives probably wouldn't be as successful at getting its genes around."
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"A plan is always successful if the plan is good."
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"The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that's when it works."
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"The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money."
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"What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself."
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"Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant."
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"The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful."
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"Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work."
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"If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you."
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"Any movement that has been successful in this country for Black liberation has included old and young, men and women, and people not of color that understand their superiority complex, that understand White supremacy, and that internalize that, sort that out, and heal from that in order that they might help, because there are some people of color that are not on our side."
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