"You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure."

Ziglar, Zig on attitude
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"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

Ziglar, Zig on failure
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package."

Ruskin, John on egotism
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"What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end."

Ruskin, John on quality
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"Whether for life or death, do your own work well."

Ruskin, John on quality   

"Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition."

Ruskin, John on slavery   

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

Ruskin, John on success
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"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."

Ruskin, John on beauty
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"A book worth reading is worth buying."

Ruskin, John on books - reading
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"You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement."

Ruskin, John on books - reading
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"People cannot live by lending money to one another."

Ruskin, John on borrowing   

"The best thing in life aren't things."

Ruskin, John on value
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"The best work never was and never will be done for money."

Ruskin, John on work
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"The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present."

Ruskin, John on children
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"A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it."

Ruskin, John on cost   

"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit."

Carnegie, Andrew on delegation   

"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."

Carnegie, Andrew on excellence
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"You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself."

Carnegie, Andrew on preparation   

"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry."

Ruskin, John on art   

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."

Ruskin, John on peace
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"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

Ruskin, John on joy   

"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."

Ruskin, John on fishing
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"It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work."

Ruskin, John on goals   

"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort."

Ruskin, John on greatness   

"Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality."

Ruskin, John on guilt   

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

Ruskin, John on honesty
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"The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power."

Ruskin, John on imagination
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"An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind."

Ruskin, John on imagination   

"Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not."

Ruskin, John on individuality
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"Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them."

Ruskin, John on imagination   

"It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning."

Ruskin, John on learning   

"It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances."

Ruskin, John on life   

"It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends."

Ruskin, John on money   

"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

Ruskin, John on music   

"People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic."

Ruskin, John on people   

"There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself."

Carnegie, Andrew on self-improvement
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"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner."

Ziglar, Zig on expectation   

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

Edison, Thomas A. on ability
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"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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