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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Business, Work

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• Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

  Robert Sternberg

  Doe, Academic, Academic Success

  Robert J. Sternberg (2011). “College Admissions for the 21st Century”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

  Tom Robbins

  Fate, Adequate, Matter

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.22, Bantam

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• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• There are too many other barriers to success in life to allow a lack of self-confidence to be one of them.

  Julie Foucher

  Self Confidence, Barriers, Self

  "Ladies, Let’s Aim for the Top of the Podium" by Julie Foucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.

  Charles Simmons

  Character, Common Sense, Feelings

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• The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Success, Yield

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1651, Delphi Classics

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• What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.

  Tim Ferriss

  Numbers, Advice, Needs

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• When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, People, Drunk

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The greatest success in life is to feel I’m something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.

  Dennis Wilson

  Falling In Love, Feelings, Life Is

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• Dreamers who regard dreams as important and even vital to success in life will receive and remember helpful dreams.

  Patricia Garfield

  Dream, Important, Helpful

  Patricia Garfield (1995). “Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.

  Debbi Fields

  Business, Successful, Entrepreneur

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• I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Life, Men, Doe

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• Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.

  Billy Graham

  Integrity, Real, Character

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• It is success that colours all in life,
  Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  Fool, Honest, Villain

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• I have learned... adversity can be one of the greatest gifts of all.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Real success is making art your whole life.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Success, Art, Real

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• There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.

  Martin Seligman

  Optimism, Looks, Life Is

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• How few young men realize that their success in life depends more upon what they are than upon what they know. It is self-esteem that has brought the race this far.

  Charles Wesley

  Self Esteem, Men, Race

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• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

  Denis Waitley

  Happy, Gratitude, Grateful

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• That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

  Richard Steele

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Life And Death, Noble

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.20, Modern Library

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