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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

—André Maurois

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If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

—Marcelene Cox

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We fall forward to succeed.

—Mary Kay Ash

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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.

—Sigmund Freud

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I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job.

—Roseanne Barr

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

—Gore Vidal

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For evil to succeed, all it needs is for good men to do nothing.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

—Niccolo Machiavelli

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Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you're successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you're inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.

—Shannon L. Alder

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If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion — the relations between one thing and another. Humanity goes.

—Virginia Woolf

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Reconsider your definitions. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it . . . a sure sense that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

—John Ruskin

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You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks.

—Sarah Mlynowski in Ten Things We Did

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Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

—Annie Dillard

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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

—Dale Carnegie

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