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• It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

  David Levithan

  Answers, Ends, Shows

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.112, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I knew how to succeed was to try harder than anyone else. Dogged persistence is what got me through life. But here was something I was half-decent at. Being able to run great distances was the one thing I could offer the world. Others might be faster, but I could go longer. My strongest quality is that I never give up.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Giving Up, Distance

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.135, Atlantic Books

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• Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspiration, Pride, Creating

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• Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Loyalty, Two, People

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• Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Money, Attitude

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.87, Wildside Press LLC

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• When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Stress, Giving, Wonder

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• If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Sorry, Males, Bills

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• School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Real, School, Personality

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.

  Carl Jung

  Moving, Our World, Awakening

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• Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.

  Margaret Cho

  Funny Inspirational, Dies

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• Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.

  Donald Barthelme

  Stupidity, Done, Has Beens

  Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

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• Human will is the strongest will ever created. There are those who are born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it at all costs. They won’t be denied. Nothing daunts them.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, Determined To Succeed, Cost

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.162, St. Martin's Griffin

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• No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it's meant to go. And when it turns up, there's a bloke in it called The Doctor and there will be stuff wrong and he will do his best to sort it out and he will probably succeed cos he's awesome. Now sit down, shut up, and watch 'Blink'.

  Neil Gaiman

  Blue, Space, Doctors

  "If This is Sunday Than I Must be at Home" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. April 7, 2011.

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• Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

  Michael Crichton

  Philosophy, People, Important

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• in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd And left it to his son imperial lord. Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King of France and England did this King succeed; Whose state so many of had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Stars, Son

  William Shakespeare (1883). “Shakespeare's King Henry V”

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• There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Political, Trying, Able

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• The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Determination, Learning

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• We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Writing, People, Too Much

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

  Warren G. Bennis

  People, Soul, Dreamer

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.149, John Wiley & Sons

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• We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.

  Simon Pegg

  Fate, People, Choices

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• That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Real, Unhappy, Trying

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.406, Xist Publishing

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• The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Sadness, People, Way

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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• Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Philosophy, Majority

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