#success

The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievements in ways we cannot begin to imagine. It's not enough to ask what successful people are like, in other words. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

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You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ↗

— Michael Jordan

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Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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Prepare yourself for success. You have to see it coming to get there. ↗

— Destiny Booze

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This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate… the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug, to kiss… this is the time to experience, participate and live your life as a verb. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail. ↗

— Criss Jami

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It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

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One of the key things is learning which bits of life you don't need to take seriously. Usually far more than you expect. ↗

— Penny Grubb

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We are all rich in mind, we just have to exert a little more pressure to ourselves in order to expose our wealthiness to the outside world ↗

— Mojela Malelu

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