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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There are three types of lies -
lies, damn lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
- Henny Youngman
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
That's the secret to life . . .
replace one worry with another.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Those who won our independence...
valued liberty as an end and as a means.
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
- The Buddha
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal.
My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being.
Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
- Carl Jung
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In all chaos there is a cosmos,
in all disorder a secret order.
- Carl Jung
The secret of health for both mind and body
is not to mourn for the past,
nor to worry about the future,
but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
- The Buddha
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
All differences in this world
are of degree, and not of kind,
because oneness is the secret of everything.
- Swami Vivekananda
The secret to a joyful life is Simplicity -
saying NO to the latest this and the most glamorous that -
saying NO to chasing an overly-demanding career -
saying NO to the stressful demands upon your time and energy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Music and rhythm find their way
into the secret places of the soul.
- Plato
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one.
Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
- The Buddha
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
The very word "secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society;
and we are as a people inherently and historically
opposed to secret societies,
to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
- John F. Kennedy
The secret of merging with Spirit
and recognizing the oneness of the whole Universe
cannot be learned in a lifetime, but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking our
cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is, "Life is not supposed to be fair."
This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!
Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.
God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.
The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.
Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea that
life was "supposed" to be "fair,"
and all the trouble started -
expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -
a whole cycle of suffering that began
with the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
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