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Booker T. Washington

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

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Abraham Lincoln
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.”

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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Pablo Picasso

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

PABLO PICASSO

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Henry W. Longfellow

“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.”

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW

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George S. Patton
“I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”

GEORGE S. PATTON

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Henry David Thoreau
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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John D. Rockefeller Jr.

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR.

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Truman Capote
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

TRUMAN CAPOTE

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Aristotle Onassis
“The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.”

ARISTOTLE ONASSIS

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Thomas A. Edison

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

THOMAS A. EDISON

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Winston Churchill
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

WINSTON CHURCHILL

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Oscar Wilde
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”

OSCAR WILDE

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Dale Carnegie

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

DALE CARNEGIE

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“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All successful men have agreed in one thing—they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.”

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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