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15 Success Quotes From History's Greatest Minds
George S. Patton
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“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim ..."
Michelangelo
Find What You Love to Do and Do It
Focus on doing something you love.
When you’ve found what you’re passionate about, you get the motivation to keep you moving.
Learn How to Balance Life
If people think their job will lead to success, they might spend too much time on it and neglect other areas of their life.
Keep a balance between work, rest, health and life.
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Napoleon Hill's Golden Rule
“Only by working harmoniously in co-operation with other individuals or groups of individuals and thus creating value and benefit for them will one create sustainable achievement for oneself...
How to manifest an unconditional Desire
- Occupy your surroundings with desire superstars.
- Substitute the roots of pessimistic energy with affirmative and optimistic energy.
- Take action upon well-researched and thought-out knowledge.
- Put yourself in positive places, and surround yourself with good people.
- Burn those bridges, such that you commit and leave yourself without any other choice but to push on.
- Use mediums such as positive music, videos, and images to reinforce your desires.
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1800: Jefferson and Adams
The outcome was so bizarre, the United States had to amend the Constitution.
- The election of 1800 saw Thomas Jefferson tie with his Democratic-Republican "running mate" Aaron Burr. Both...
1824: 'Corrupt bargain'
- Andrew Jackson won the popular vote by less than 39,000 ballots and took 99 Electoral College votes. John Quincy Adams secured 84, William Crawford won 41, and Henry Clay had 37.
- Clay, with the least votes, got the boot, and his supporters shifted their support to Adams, who would go on to win the majority of the House vote.
After his inauguration, Adams selected Clay as his secretary of state. Jackson accused Adams and Clay of a "corrupt bargain."
1860: Nation divided
The 1860 election was notable because it ripped the long-dominant Party (and nation) in half.
- The Democrats were unable at their 1860 convention to establish an official party line on slavery.
- At a second convention that year, the Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas, but many Southerners in the party selected Breckinridge as their man. Both would claim to be the official Democratic candidate.
- Lincoln snared 40% of the popular vote but took most of the North in the Electoral College.
- Douglas was second in the popular vote but took only Missouri.
- Breckenridge took most of the South.
- Bell's middle of the road policies earned him the middle of the road.
In 1861, delegates from South Carolina, and six of the Southern states formed the Confederate States of America and selected Jefferson Davis as their president.