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• The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need on no outward stimulus.

  Billy Graham

  Peace, Roots, Giving

  Billy Graham (1977). “The Secret of Happiness”, Pocket

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• As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Practice, Goal

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• I am inviting you to discover that deeper than any pattern, deeper than personality, deeper than success or failure, deeper than worth or worthlessness, there is a radiance that is undeniable, always present - the truth of who you are.

  Gangaji

  Personality, Radiance, Patterns

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• When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.

  Frank Herbert

  Book, Writing, Years

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.8, Penguin

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• There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

  Miley Cyrus

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... How would I be? What would I do? We may now care for each Earthian individual at a sustainable billionaire's level of affluence while living exclusively on less than 1 percent of our planet's daily energy income from our cosmically designed nuclear reactor, the Sun, optimally located 92 million safe miles away from us.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Care, May, Safe

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• Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

  Benjamin Graham

  Art, Skills, Important

  Benjamin Graham (1962). “Security Analysis: Principles and Technique”

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• There is no objective criteria for either success or failure. People who achieve their goals are successful, those who don't are not.

  Michael Josephson

  Successful, People, Goal

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• Success or failure can only be measured in terms of a particular objective. The success of a person whose life objective is money or status will look very different than the success of one who sets out to make a positive difference in the world.

  Michael Josephson

  Differences, Different, Looks

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• If Steinitz continually took pains to discover combinations, the success or failure of his diligent search could not be explained by him as due to chance. Hence, he concluded that some characteristic, a quality of the given position, must exist that would indicate the success or the failure of the search before it was actually undertaken.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Pain, Quality, Chance

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• Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

  Frederick Douglass

  Slavery, Morality, Making Money

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.363, Chicago Review Press

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• There is no success or failure in Nature.

  John Searle

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• It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  Herman Cain

  Wise, Successful, Keys

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• Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.

  Suki Waterhouse

  Life Is, Bunch

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• There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger of being faced with indifference or hostility is discouraging, and it may be that success - acceptance if it's too quick, too lightning-quick - can turn the heads of some people.

  Edward Albee

  Acceptance, Two, People

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The rules of war and business are the same. Victory and success are the same. In one it's life and/or death in the other it is success or failure. There really is little room for compromise of "gray matter".

  Richard Marcinko

  War, Gray Matter, Victory

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• If you want peace, you've got to deal with people; you don't just deal with objects. And whether they take it as a responsibility or not, the success or failure in Kosovo is going to be the success or failure of building, first, economic hope, and then trying to heal the damage that's been done.

  James Wolfensohn

  Responsibility, People, Trying

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• Whatever your plan, you never invest your own self-worth in its ultimate success or failure.

  Wayne Dyer

  Success, Self Worth, Plans

  Wayne W. Dyer (2011). “Pulling Your Own Strings: Dynamic Techniques for Dealing with Other People and Living Your Life As You Choose”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

  William James

  Positive, Success, Attitude

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• An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.

  Dale Carnegie

  Heart, Mind, Public Speaking

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them,
  are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

  Neal Boortz

  Responsibility, Keys, Choices

  Neal Boortz (1998). “The Terrible Truth about Liberals”, p.44, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Pain, Attitude, Believe

  Charles R. Swindoll (2015). “Strengthening Your Grip: How to Be Grounded in a Chaotic World”, p.107, Worthy Publishing

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• The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.

  Saul Alinsky

  Father, Hero, Mean

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.34, Vintage

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• Why does a dad matter so much to a daughter, in particular? A dad is the one who teaches a daughter what a male is all about. It's the first man in her life--the first man she loves, the first male she tries to please, the first man who says no to her, the first man to discipline her. In effect, he sets her up for success or failure with the opposite sex. Not only that, but she takes cues from how Dad treats Mom as she grows up about what to expect as a woman who is in a relationship with a man. So Dad sets up his daughter's marriage relationship too.

  Kevin Leman

  Mom, Daughter, Sex

  Kevin Leman (2014). “Be the Dad She Needs You to Be: The Indelible Imprint a Father Leaves on His Daughter's Life”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.

  Bill Watterson

  Ideas, Trying, Detours

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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