There’s nothing you’ve ever been successful at that you didn’t work on every day.

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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.— Mignon McLaughlin

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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

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If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that? ― L.A. Jones

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And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. ― Anonymous

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My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace. - Denzel Washington

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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be. — Daniel J. Boorstin

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