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"Talent helps, but success is only achieved and sustained through consistent effort."
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Personal Development
"I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!"
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Personal Development
"Diligence always makes a person rich."
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Personal Development
"Do not stop giving your soul-best."
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Personal Development
"If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy."
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Personal Development
"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."
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Personal Development
"Success comes before work only in the dictionary."
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Personal Development
"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."
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Personal Development
"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."
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Personal Development
"You get what you work for, not what you think you deserve."
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Personal Development
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"For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook."
Sex
"The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent."
Talent
"The trouble with children is that they're not returnable."
Family
"Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps."
Virtue
"Sex is the last refuge of the miserable."
Sex
"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."
Opportunity
"Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne."
Diplomacy
"Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep."
Effort
"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency."
Happiness
"Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin."
Reading
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