Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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More Quotes from Booker T. Washington
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
› Booker T. Washington
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Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
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› Mark Twain
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
› Marcus Aurelius
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
› Robert Schuller
A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
› Black Elk
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
› Booker T. Washington
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.
› Benjamin Hardy
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
› Ralph Waldo Emerson
The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.
› Dalai Lama
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
› Christopher Morley
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.
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What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.
› Debbi Fields
Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile winds. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.
› Wilber & Orville Wright
