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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Success, Men

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou

Truth, Place, Fact

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma Gandhi

Great, Works, Welfare

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx

Great, History, Sex

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Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
Meister Eckhart

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Society, Same

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Tony Robbins

Change, Wish, Lives

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams

Why, Another, Here

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
Audrey Hepburn

Success, Birthday, Important

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
Joel Osteen

Long, Saying, Enough

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
Marilyn Monroe

Live, Everybody, Looks

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve Jobs

Business, True, Down

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.
Mitch Hedberg

Car, Tell, Coming

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
Jerry Seinfeld

Amazing, Happens, News

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens

Before, After, Between

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
Mitt Romney

Dreams, Work, Business

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin

Love, Country, America

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
Conan O'Brien

Life, Work, Amazing

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Between, Difference, Oh

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken

Marriage, Trust, End

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
W. Clement Stone

Mind, Goal, Problem

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
Clint Eastwood

Good, Mind, Job

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
W. C. Fields

Sex, Nothing, Worse

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
Bill Gates

Children, Focus, Thinking

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
Earl Nightingale

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
Andy Warhol

Home, Happy, Long

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell

Power, Mind, Cannot

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
Bernard Meltzer

God, Yourself, Made

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Business, Movies, Humanity

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
Fred Rogers

Best, Knowing, Loved

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