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“I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.”

Men Want Use Causes Successful Failing Mines Failure Associates Successful Man

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.”

Art War Country Causes Successful Victory Civilization Prosperity Triumph Permanent Splendid Having Hope

Author:Charles Babbage

“Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.”

People Thinking Children Littles Matter Causes Successful Teacher Teaching

Author:Alice Moore Hubbard

“Remember that failure is part of the process of successful running. Performance is a roller coaster; to think otherwise is irrational and will cause you much stress and discouragement. Lighten up on yourself. Ups and downs can be expected. The performance of most serious runners fluctuates by the week. You win some, you lose some; some days you're hot, some days you're not. Don't fight with yourself when failure, the teacher, pays an unexpected visit. Open up to learning from it.”

“Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself.”

Men Causes Successful Wife Gains Versions Settling Faithful One Woman Settling Down Being Faithful

Author:Tony Gaskins

“Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful”

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Book:The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Take every failure as an experience, cause to be successful you need experience.”

Needs Motivational Causes Successful Being Successful

Author:Jonathan Daniels

“I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.”

Believe Self Reason Fall I Believe Causes Successful Ambition Determination Curiosity Technological Self Destruct

Author:Pete Seeger

“People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.”

People Made Enough Causes Can Do Realizing Numbers Mistake Careers Successful Accounts Starting Probability Forecasts Successful Career

Author:Alan Greenspan

“As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.”

People Ideas Causes Successful Bounds Activism Engaged

Book:The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

Source: The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

“The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.”

Causes Successful Reader Fit Paper Columns

Author:William Safire

“You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ.”

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Book:Faith on the Line

Source: Faith on the Line

“Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.”

Suffering Causes Effort Successful Our Lives Activity Pressure Intention Noble Violent Enterprise Sincere Frantic Successful Life

Author:Wayne Muller

“The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur's efforts.”

Has Beens Facts Causes Effort Poverty Successful Consequence Entrepreneur Riches Absence Consumers Successful Entrepreneurs

Book:Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“With a civilian target, female bombers tend to be more successful and cause more damage.”

Causes Successful Female Damage Target Civilians Bombers

Author:Mia Bloom