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We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.
Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the F
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obs
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.
If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts twenty four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy th
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
To revive sorrow is cruel.
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of priva
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.
We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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