"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act."

Success, Successful, Ideas, Courage, Failure

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"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act."

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"When you focus on diligence and hard work miracle will come to you."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"You want to achieve your dreams early, right? I know of only one back door; that's HARDWORK. Only few people use that entrance so the advantage is that there is no or less traffic there!"

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"The Western world's sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort."

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"Success is deliberate. It doesn't come as an accident. What you work for is what you achieve. Faith without work is a vain hope."

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"I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

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"If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures."

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"You multiply your life when you invest it."

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"Christians are becoming disengaged in following the Scripture that tells us not to conform to the world's system."

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"You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search."

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"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."

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"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."

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"For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination."

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"Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself."

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"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."

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"The "self-image" is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior."

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"You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut."

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"Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel."

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