Success

“The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.”

-Vauvenargues

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“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

-John Maynard Keynes

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“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

-David Brinkley

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“In order to deal with reality successfully—to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires—man needs self esteem: he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.”

-Nathaniel Branden

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“All successful men have agreed in one thing,–they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and the last of things. A belief in causality, or strict connection between every trifle and the principle of being, and, in consequence, belief in compensation, or, that nothing is got for nothing,–characterizes all valuable minds, and must control every effort that is made by an industrious one.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”

-James Lowell

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“Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve, And Hope without an object cannot live.”

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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