I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King, Jr

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I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ― Haruki Murakami

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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can. ― William Faulkner

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I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

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I don't have a lot of discipline.

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The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

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He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.

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