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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Conclusion." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Conclusion." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

Francis Bacon

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Bacon, Francis "Of Great Place." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Great Place." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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You don't ever have to do anything sensational for people to love you.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. Commencement address to the Dartmouth Class of 2002. Commencement cermony. 2002, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

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Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Woody Allen

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Allen, Woody. Quoted in "He's Woody Allen's 1‐1‐Silent Partner." Written by Susan Braudy. The New York Times, 21 Aug. 1977.

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Success is relative:
It is what we can make of the mess we have
made of things.

T.S. Eliot

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Eliot, T. S. The Family Reunion. Performed by Michael Redgrave, Helen Haye, and Catherine Lacey. 1939, Westminster Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 2, sc. 3.

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I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

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"Failure." Directed by Mark Romanek. Performed by Michael Jordan. Nike, May 1997.

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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business—you didn't build that.

Barack Obama

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Obama, Barack. Remarks at campaign appearance. 13 July 2012, Roanoke, VA, USA.

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It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our lives, from which we make our choices, is very good stuff.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. Commencement address to the Dartmouth Class of 2002. Commencement cermony. 2002, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

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A purpose is the eternal condition of success. Nothing will take its place. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb... Education will not; the country is full of unsuccessful educated men... There is no road to success but through a clear, strong purpose.

Theodore T. Munger

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On the Threshold

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Munger, Theodore T. On the Threshold. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881, ch. 1.

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There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there–good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

Elizabeth Warren

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Warren, Elizabeth. Remarks on campaign trail. Aug. 2011, Andover, MA, USA.

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. Letter to Isham Reavis. 5 Nov. 1855.

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Lincoln, Abraham. Letter to Isham Reavis, November 5, 1855." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson)

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Circles." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Circles (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Mrs. Foote. 2 Dec. 1887.

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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Strenuous Life." Hamilton Club of Chicago meeting. 10 Apr. 1899, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Strenuous Life." Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Vintage, 2014.

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Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Emily Dickinson

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Dickinson, Emily, [published anonymously]. "Success is Counted Sweetest." Brooklyn Daily Union, 27 April 1864, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "Success is Counted Sweetest." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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Success is more dangerous than failure, (the ripples break over a wider coastline).

Graham Greene

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Greene, Graham. Ways of Escape. The Bodley Head, 1980, ch. 8, sec. 3.

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He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie Anderson Stanley

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Stanley, Bessie A. "Success." Brown Book Magazine, c. 1905.

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Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

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Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

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Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

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Call me crazy, but it is my philosophy that in order to be successful, one must project an image of success, at all times.

American Beauty

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American Beauty. Directed by Sam Mendes, Jinks/Cohen Company, 1999.

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Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis, and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Joseph Heller

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Heller, Joseph. Conversations with Joseph Heller, edited by Adam J. Sorkin. University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Originally spoken during an interview by Sam Merrill. Playboy, June 1975.

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