A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Success to us is not just a girl overseas going to school - but also leading her village to a better future.
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
I always and strictly tell Nintendo employees never to use the term 'success' to describe our own performance.
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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