Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.
He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.
We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!
The beautiful thing about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths.
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.
Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.
You don't need an introduction to succeed in life. You need to have good work. Work hard. Believe in yourself
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.
It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and give the people the inspiration and the drive to make it succeed. In short, the elite.. Every society tries to produce this type. The British have special schools for them: the gifted and talented are sent to Eton and Harrow.
I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?
It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.
Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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