"I would rather make my name than inherit it."

William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist

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"This is no place for limits."

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"But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"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."

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"Ambition can creep as well as soar."

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"If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book."

Lorii Myers, Canadian Author

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"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."

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"The level of success you will experience can be predicted by looking closely at the sacrifices you are willing to make."

Mensah Oteh, Nigerian Author

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"Once you figure out what you want in life-expect nothing less."

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"There is practically nothing in life you are set out to do that you cannot accomplish, it only takes you to make you."

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"The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion."

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"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."

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"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you."

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"If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!"

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"I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses."

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"It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England."

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"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."

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"Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed."

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