Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. - Andrew Carnegie

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.- Donald Trump

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There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking. – Brian Tracy

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day. ― Will Durant

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I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. ― Theodore Roosevelt

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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. ― Sun Tzu

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I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance. -Diogenes

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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. -Johnny Cash

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