“Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all – reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.”
— Mitt Romney
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“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.”
— Anna Pavlova
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“To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”
— Pat Riley
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“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
— John D. Rockefeller
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“I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.”
— Joe Nichols
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“The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.”
— Elbert Hubbard
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“When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.”
— Kiana Tom
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“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
— Samuel Smiles
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“The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.”
— James Thurber
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“I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.”
— George Hickenlooper
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“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.”
— Vaclav Havel
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