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«Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.»
Author: Andre Malraux
(Historian, Novelist, Statesman)
| About:
Ability,
Action,
Courage,
Failure,
Ideas,
Risk-taking,
Success
| Keywords:
abilities, act, bet, betting, bet on, calculated, calculating, difference, ideas, I Bet You, more often than not, risk, successful, you bet
«One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.»
Author: Arthur Ashe
(Activist, Tennis Player)
| About:
Confidence,
Self-confidence,
Success
| Keywords:
key, preparation, self confidence
«One failure is worth seven and a half successes»
«One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.»
«Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.»
«One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune»
Author: William Edward Hartpole Lecky
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Character,
Experience,
Success
| Keywords:
character, depends, either, fortune, intellect, lessons, on the whole, teaches, The Fortunes
«Our culture tends to label everybody and everything either a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. I often wonder how the one winner and 58,000 losers in the Boston Marathon feel about that? I can't imagine even one of those runners thinking of himself as a loser. I believe that for every one of them, to run the race well is to succeed.»
Author: Robert White
| About:
Success
«Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Justice,
Love,
Reason,
Solidarity,
Success
| Keywords:
developing, rooted, solidarity, succeeds
«Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Perseverance,
Success,
Trying
| Keywords:
agreement, coming together, furtherance, in agreement, perseverance, sublimity, succeeding, The Coming, The Foundation
«Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Belief,
Success
| Keywords:
assures, assuring, belief, doubtful, outcome, outcomes, successful, undertaking, undertook, venture, ventured, venturing
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