Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly. — Nelson Mandela

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Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln

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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

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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

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Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact. - Jo Nesbo

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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important. — Manny Pacquiao

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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

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Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes. - Jim Rohn

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. - Napoleon Hill

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