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“I’ll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don’t want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue.”

Ifs Want Three Opportunity Wish Church Sweet Succeed Sitting Driving Demon Hospitals Phony Synagogue Opportunity Knocks Maternity Baloney Opportunity Knocking Short And Sweet

Author:Charles Montgomery

“If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.”

Ifs Want Wish Succeed Picks Bones All Time Backbone Funny Bones

Author:Reba McEntire

“That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.”

Doe Stills Spirit Desire Wish Prayer Succeed Prove Expectations Silent Passionate Surrender Anxious Submission Passionate Desire

Book:Sermons ...

Source: Sermons ...

“To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.”

Littles Desire Wish Sleep Succeed Ambition Accounts

Author:Ovid

“I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.”

People Thinking Looks Reality Found Wish Succeed Wishful Thinking

Book:A White Heron

Source: A White Heron

“So long as a person who has made mistakes . . . honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at him.”

Ifs Way Should Persons Long Made Wish Mistake Succeed Honestly Welcome Cures Sickness Sincerely Made A Mistake Comrade Lashes

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.”

Ifs Men Pain Joy Wish Stars Understanding Animal Succeed Plant Fulfillment Fervent

Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.”

People Should Two Wish Ability Deals Succeed Skills Should Have Sells

Author:Shiv Khera

“Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.”

Men Enough Wish Design Honor Battle Succeed

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.”

Ifs Wish Leadership Succeed Manage

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.”

Long Two Enough Age Success Time Three Hope Wish Change Realizing Courage Four Succeed

Author:Earl Nightingale

“The ones who keep giving you reasons why you won't succeed, are probably the ones who wish that you won't. Listen to your heart. Follow your dream. It is not a question whether your dream is impossible. It is a question of how badly you want it.”

Want Giving Heart Reason Dream Wish Impossible Succeed Reason Why Your Dreams Follow Your Dreams Listen To Your Heart

Author:Rita Zahara

“...stand with me today and pledge to work for an America that doesn't ignore those in need and lifts up those who wish to succeed. Pledge to hold your government accountable for ignoring the suffering of so many for far too long. And pledge to do your part to build the America that we have dreamed of - where the bright light of opportunity shines on every person - an America where the family you are born into, or the color of your skin, will never control your destiny.”