What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
The road to success is always under construction.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. I don't care what literary device you might use, or belief systems you tap into--if you can make a story true for the reader, if you can give them a glimpse into another way of seeing the world, or another way that they can cope with their problems, then that story is a succes.
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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