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"He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success."
"Goals and dreams are the entrepreneur's mental energy. However, the same goals and dreams that drive his behavior will also drive him to an early grave if he doesn't take care of his physical energy through a mix of exercise and relaxation. Energy manipulation is the ability to feed the mind with dreams and sustain the body so it will keep up with those dreams."
"There is practically nothing in life you are set out to do that you cannot accomplish, it only takes you to make you."
"A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best."
"She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved."
"To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations."
"...I say to you, without pleasure, that this son of ours will be a great man, because -- well -- because he is not very intelligent. He can see only one desire at a time. I said he tested his dreams; he will murder every dream with the implacable arrows of his will. This boy will win to every goal of his aiming; for he can realize no thought, no reason, but his own. And I am sorry for his coming greatness..."
Explore more quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"
"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
"And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can."
"Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"
"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain."
"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."
"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."
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