Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. — Andrew Carnegie

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I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance. -Diogenes

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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. — Booker T. Washington

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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. ― Aeschylus

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Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day. ― Will Durant

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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them. — Mark Twain

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.- Donald Trump

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If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. ― Sun Tzu

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I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. ― Theodore Roosevelt

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People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ― Ernest Hemingway

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