#succes

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete. ↗

— Carl Lewis

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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in. ↗

— Carl Lewis

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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school. ↗

— Damian Lewis

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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been. ↗

— Gary Lineker

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I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing. ↗

— Art Linkletter

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I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little. ↗

— Richard Linklater

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My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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