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“A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.”

“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.”

“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”

“You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.”

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.”

“If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.”

“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.”

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”

“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.”

“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.”

“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”

“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.”

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

“The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.”

“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”

“Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.”

“"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

“Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.”

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

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

“If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''”

“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.”