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• If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Opportunity, Inheritance, World

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.

  Lou Holtz

  Country, Army, Invasion

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• The next step is for the great teachers to arise, and for them to clearly understand the challenges ahead and mentor accordingly. Where most generations focus the education of their children on preparing to make a living or succeed financially, leadership generations are taught by parents who see a higher role for their children.

  Oliver DeMille

  Teacher, Children, Focus

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• Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton To succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Giving, Inspire, Soul

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• There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

  Stephen Leacock

  Running, Trying, Firsts

  Stephen Leacock (2015). “Frenzied Fiction”, p.145, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.

  David Hume

  Book, Men, Wickedness

  David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume:”, p.239, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In this fight I want to show people who are in poverty, downtrodden or denied that you can succeed. I want my performance to be an inspiration to people. You have to stay in the moment and keep moving ahead. I just want to show everyone that you can find answers to your problems and afflictions with hard work and perseverance.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Perseverance, Moving, Inspiration

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• Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can convert every work into one that suits his taste. No work is petty. Everything in this world is like a banyan seed, which, though appearing tiny as a mustard seed, has yet the gigantic banyan tree latent with it. He indeed is intelligent who notices this and succeeds in making all work truly great.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Intelligent, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.34, Advaita Ashrama

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• I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality.

  Cris Mazza

  Appreciated, Sexuality, Expected

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• What doesn't kill you, usually succeeds in the second attempt.

  Mr. Krabs

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• It is not what is happening to you but rather what is happening in you that determines whether you succeed or fail.

  Ervin Seale

  Failing, Determine, Happenings

  ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”

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• A leader's job is not to do the work for others; it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

  Simon Sinek

  Jobs, Helping Others, Leader

  "Simon Sinek: A Good Leader Serves". www.askmen.com.

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• And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

  Robert Sternberg

  Order, Skills, Creative

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• What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Hunger feeds the need to succeed.

  Steve Kaufman

  Trust No One, Inspirational Tattoo, Stronger

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• Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.

  Laozi

  Earth, Shapes

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• (God) wants America to succeed. And he wants America to lead.

  John Kasich

  America, Want

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• If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.

  Norman Geras

  Trying, Doe, Helping

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• Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Path, Remember, Your Future

  "Sonia Sotomayor Tells NYU Grads About Growing Up In The Projects" by Vivian Giang, www.businessinsider.com. May 21, 2012.

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• If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

  Little Richard

  Hate, Ice, Trying

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• Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed.

  Tony Robbins

  Decision, Doe, Determined

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• Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.

  Brian Tracy

  Failing, Absolutes, Prerequisites

  Twitter post from Oct 12, 2016

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• In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most remote from all useful application, become in the next age the bases of profound physical inquiries, and in the succeeding one, perhaps, by proper simplification and reduction to tables, furnish their ready and daily aid to the artist and the sailor.

  Charles Babbage

  Artist, Profound, Age

  Charles Babbage, Peter Mark Roget (1989). “Reflections on the decline of science in England and on some of its causes: with a new appendix of correspondence by Charles Babbage & Peter M. Roget from the Philosophical magazine”

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• The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.

  Amartya Sen

  People, Gains, Economy

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• The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own saviour through our own performance and achievement. On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding. But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities also come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Lying, Character

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• Liberals insist they believe as strongly in the American dream as the rest of us, but routinely demonize those who succeed in attaining it. They loudly profess their allegiance to capitalism, but resent the inequitable money results it produces.

  David Limbaugh

  Dream, Believe, Results

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