"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."

Braiker, Harriet on motivation
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"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience."

Hubbard, Elbert on failure
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on fame
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"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."

Franklin, Benjamin on glutton   

"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."

Franklin, Benjamin on happiness
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"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."

Franklin, Benjamin on laziness
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"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."

Franklin, Benjamin on leisure   

"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"

Allen, James on success
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Edison, Thomas A. on opportunity
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"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance
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"Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged."

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance
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"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on success
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"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."

Brande, Dorothea on success
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"The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success."

Besant, Sir Walter on success   

"If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average."

Alderson, M. H. on success
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"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge"

Hill, Napoleon on criticism
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"Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be."

Browder, Charles on success   

"Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years."

Brown, Bob on success
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"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."

Ash, Mary Kay on praise
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"A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on praise
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"It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all."

Courteline, Georges on action
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"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

Proverb, Arabian on class
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"Well done, is better than well said."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him."

Hill, Napoleon on control
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"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another."

Hill, Napoleon on thoughts and thinking
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"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going."

Hill, Napoleon on action
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"There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will."

Hill, Napoleon on integrity
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"Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge."

Hill, Napoleon on honesty   

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

Hill, Napoleon on goals
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"Fears are nothing more than states of mind."

Hill, Napoleon on fear
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"Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does."

Hill, Napoleon on extra mile
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"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."

Hill, Napoleon on experience
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"It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served."

Hill, Napoleon on excellence   

"No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like."

Hill, Napoleon on joy   

"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited."

Hill, Napoleon on joy   

"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action."

Hill, Napoleon on inertia
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"No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him."

Hill, Napoleon on judgment and judges
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