Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
THOMAS EDISONNearly every person who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.
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The secret of success is focus of purpose.
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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Consider data without prejudice.
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Vision without execution is delusion.
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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I am 67, but I’m not too old to make a fresh start.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
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What you are will show in what you do.
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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
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Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
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All bibles are man-made.
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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