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Quotes and thoughts

  • “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill

  • “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” —Herman Melville

  • “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” —Colin R. Davis

  • “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” —Henry David Thoreau

  • “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie

  • “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ’Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” —Calvin Coolidge

  • “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” —Mister Rogers

  • “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” —John Wooden

  • “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder

  • “Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.” ―W. P. Kinsella

  • “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid instead of trying to be very intelligent.” —Charlie Munger

  • “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” —Tina Fey

  • “When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.” —Melissa McCarthy

  • “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” —Anaïs Nin

  • “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.” —David Hurley