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"I have not been a success, and probably never will be."
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"Success means you have succeeded in overcoming the obstacles and finally realizing the goal."
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"Do not compete with anyone. Seek to exceed your own expectations."
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"Don't be satisfied with a particular sphere of influence only."
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"To be a success, water your dream with optimism and love."
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"To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations."
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"Success is working with enthusiasm and ambition, living with joy and kindness, and going toward a life of ultimate service and happiness."
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"Be bold, be a success, and change the world."
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"What you do without expectations defines your success."
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"You are the child of this universe, you have the right to success and peace."
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"Success is important but what you become on the way to success is more important."
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"Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen."
Age
"The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men."
Business
"Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe."
People
"It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments."
Art
"I became a writer in spite of my environments."
Environment
"I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts."
Personal
"I have not been a success, and probably never will be."
Success
"I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write."
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
Man
"But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer."
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