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Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.

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Men are what their mothers made them.

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I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

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I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

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We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

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It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

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One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

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The future depends on what we do in the present.

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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

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I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

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If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

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