THE SECRET OF SUCCESS 
  Motivational sayings for success 
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   MISC QUOTATIONS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE 
   
SECRET 01 Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them  mercilessly into submission. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams In the long run, we only hit what we aim at   
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SECRET 02  Life is what we make of it, always has been, always will be   Life itself cannot give you joy, unless you will it.  Life just gives   you time and space, it’s up to you to fill it   
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SECRET 03   Every day matters 
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SECRET 04
 Never, never, never, never give up  
Make a success of living by seeing a goal and aiming for it   unswervingly. You never really lose until you stop trying   
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SECRET 05  Champions believe in themselves even if no one else does   In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can   They can because they think they can  
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SECRET 06  To move the world, we must first move ourselves   
Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right   
It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves   
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SECRET 07   You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are   tough, you fight one more round. When you get into a tight place and it  seems like you can’t go on, hold on, for that’s just the place and time  that the tide will turn   
 
Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success.  They   quit on the one yard line.  They give up at the last minute of the  game one foot from a winning touchdown  
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SECRET 08 A mistake is only a mistake if you don’t learn from it   
Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they are supposed   to help you discover who you are. If I had to live my life over again,   I’d dare to make more mistakes next time   
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SECRET 09  You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in   which you stop to look fear in the face. Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks.  It’s just a matter of how you look at them.  The purpose of life is to live it, to reach out eagerly and without   fear for newer and richer experience  
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SECRET 10  Always imitate the behavior of winners when you lose 
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SECRET 11 Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no   path and leave a trail    
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SECRET 12 Winners make goals, losers make excuses 
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SECRET 13 Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on   your face, and then reach for the stars. Get busy living or get busy dying  Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.   When you play, play hard.  When you work, don’t play at all. 
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SECRET 14 The key to achievement lies in being a “how” thinker, not an “if”   thinker   
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SECRET 15 The path of no risk is the biggest risk of all  
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SECRET 16 It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been   before...to test you limits...to break through barriers   Fortune favors the brave. To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.    
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SECRET 17 Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed  towards it. Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone  expects of you. Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the  impossible. We only learn our limits by going beyond them   
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SECRET 18 Always do your best.  What you plant now, you will harvest later 
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SECRET 19  It takes time to be a success, but time is all it takes   
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SECRET 20  Do the little things well now.  In time great things will be presented   to you waiting to be done. The beginnings of all things are small  In creating, the only hard thing is to begin   
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SECRET 22 Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb...that is where the fruit is. 
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SECRET 21   How do you know so much about everything? was asked by a very wise and  intelligent man; and the answer was  'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask  questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.  
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SECRET 23   Seize the day  
Opportunity is missed by most people because it’s dressed in overalls   and looks like work. Opportunities are seldom labeled 
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SECRET 24 Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do   
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SECRET 25  Knowing how to win is the first step, we must also know how to make  use of victories   
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SECRET 26   Always do right.  This will gratify some people and astonish the rest   In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,   stand like a rock .  If you gotta lose, lose ’em right  Be faithful to that which exists within yourself   
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SECRET 27  Promise, then perform  
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SECRET 28  Only from the alliance of everyone working with and through each  other, are great things born.   
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SECRET 29 From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a  life.  Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No  other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.  There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up  of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.   
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SECRET 30 
 Early one morning, an old man was standing on the beach throwing back  starfish that had washed ashore in the night.  The man was weak and  very old.  Each throw took a little more energy out the man, but he   kept on throwing.  The beach was covered so you could hardly take a   step and not find another dying starfish.  A young man approached the   shoreline and asked the old man what he was doing.  He replied “I’m   making a difference.”  The young man looked around and laughed “A   difference?  There are probably a million starfish on this beach, you   can’t possibly think you will make a difference.  The old man picked   up another starfish and said “It makes a difference to this one...”   and threw back into the sea.   
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, May the road rise up to meet you;   
May the wind always be at your back;   
May the sun shine warm upon your face;   
May the rain fall soft upon your fields.   
And until we meet again may God hold you in the palm of his hand.   

You’ve failed many times.  Although you may not remember.  You fell   down the first time you tried to walk.  You almost drowned the first  time you tried to swim, didn’t you?  Did you hit the ball the first   
time you swung a bat?  Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home   runs, also strike out alot.  R.H. Macy failed seven times before his   store in New York caught on.  English novelist John Creasey got 753   rejection slips before he published 564 books.  Babe Ruth struck out   1,330 times, but he also hit 715 home runs.  Don’t worry about   failure.  Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.   You don't have to have the lead if you have the courage to come from   behind   

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and   don’t worry about the darkness, for that is when stars shine brightest   

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved   much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of   intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and   accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it,   whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who  has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best   he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory is a benediction.  

Thank  you   
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