The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time. — Joe Girard

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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ― Coco Chanel

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. —Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé)

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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ― Maya Angelou

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Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact. - Jo Nesbo

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Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. — Lou Holtz

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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

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