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Letter "S" » Success
«I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.»
Author: Brendan Fraser
| About:
Responsibility,
Success
| Keywords:
An example, comport, comports, prayed
«I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.»
Author: John D. Rockefeller
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| About:
Perseverance,
Success
| Keywords:
essential, overcomes, perseverance, quality
«I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.»
«I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
| About:
Emotion,
Inventions,
Success
| Keywords:
canned food, food for thought, go through, Human heart, inventor, The Brain, the inventor, The Thrills, thrill, unfolding
«It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.»
«I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.»
Author: Tom Hopkins
| About:
Failure,
Judgement,
Perseverance,
Success,
Time,
Trying
| Keywords:
direct, Direct proportion, judged, number, proportion
«I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| About:
Belief,
Success
| Keywords:
preeminent
«I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them»
«I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.»
«I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming with a goal in front and not behind»
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