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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I read more
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears.
[Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam read more
The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears.
[Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit.]
Never say
"Fail" again.
Never say
"Fail" again.
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, read more
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
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Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
[Lat., Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno
Verentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum
Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.]