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Success

«When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.»
«Whatever the heart loves, the head must think about; what the head thinks about the mouth must speak of; whatever the mouth speaks of the hand must do.»
«When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you?re in good shape.»
«We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.»
«Why be a man when you can be a success?»
Author: Bertolt Brecht | About: Mankind, Success
«What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.»
«When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.»
«Whatever you are, be a good one.»
«We were born to succeed, not to fail.»
«Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to censure and contempt; and if the liberty of laughing be once indulged, every man will laugh at»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Success | Keywords: censure, expose