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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, read more
That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,
His hundreds soon hit:
His high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.
Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]
Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.
Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.
Nothing succeeds like success.
[Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]
Nothing succeeds like success.
[Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]
These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed,
but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark.
These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed,
but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark.
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted
