Patience And Success Quotes

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Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.
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Roopleen (Words to inspire the winner in YOU)
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Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.
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Jess C. Scott (Clear: A Guide to Treating Acne Naturally)
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What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.
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Steve Maraboli
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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
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Elbert Hubbard
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Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Take a chance and risk it all or play it safe and suffer defeat.
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Pittacus Lore (I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1))
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Every flower blooms at its own pace.
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Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
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Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.
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Habeeb Akande
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Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it will be your time to shine soon.
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Sope Agbelusi
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The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your attitude and how you treat people.
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Germany Kent
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Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come.And then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does.
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Robin S. Sharma (The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life)
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If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.
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Sri Chinmoy
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Nothing comes as an accomplishment instantly. Success does not come overnight. Patience is the key! Grow up and be the tree; but remember it takes dry and wet seasons to become a fruit bearer, achiever and impact maker!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstand criticisms.
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Amit Ray (Walking the Path of Compassion)
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Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overcome failures.
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Amit Ray (Walking the Path of Compassion)
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Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.
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A.J. Darkholme (Rise of the Morningstar (The Morningstar Chronicles, #1))
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The secret code of success is patience, a virtue that can not be replaced. It takes time to build great dreams.
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Bernard Kelvin Clive
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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
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Napoleon Hill
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Patience is a virtue not a vice.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they’ve got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success.
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Charles T. Munger (Value Investing: A Value Investor's Journey Through the Unknown...)
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Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and compassionate towards the goal.
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Amit Ray (Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath)
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We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.
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Steve Maraboli (Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience)
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Most times, the worst of situations can become a compass to the best of situations
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Ikechukwu Izuakor
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learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, deciseeness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
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Brian Adams
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Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, tenacity and endurance success will come.
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Amit Ray
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The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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In our culture we tend to equate thinking and intellectual powers with success and achievement. In many ways, however, it is an emotional quality that separates those who master a field from the many who simply work at a job. Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.
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Robert Greene (Mastery (The Modern Machiavellian Robert Greene Book 1))
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If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.
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Robert Greene (Mastery)
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Patience and persistence are the keys... The keys to unlock doors of success... With these two virtues, you grow in reasoning and experience.
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Ogwo David Emenike
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Tenderhearted people are silent sufferers they just learn the art to fly with broken wings.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Even the tallest trees always begin as a seed.
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A.J. Darkholme (Rise of the Morningstar (The Morningstar Chronicles, #1))
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The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.
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Bryant McGill (Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life)
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Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, So ... Love the people who treat you right and pray for the ones who don't. Life is 10% what you make it 90% how you take it.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; But let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Now there are many, many people in the world, but relatively few with whom we interact, and even fewer who cause us problems. So when you come across such a chance for practicing patience and tolerance, you should treat it with gratitude. It is rare. Just as having unexpectedly found a treasure in your own house, you should be happy and grateful toward your enemy for providing you that precious opportunity. Because if you are ever to be successful in your practice of patience and tolerance, which are critical factors in counteracting negative emotions, it is due to your own efforts and also the opportunity provided by your enemy.
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Dalai Lama XIV
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Theres no competition in DESTINY. Run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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No body is a looser either he is a Winner or a Learner
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Have and show motivation to do and learn. That's the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Sometimes great achievements arrive much later than we expect, but they arrive, and they are great.
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Sira Mas
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There will always be rough days and easy ones. Like a ship, we must sail through both.
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Nabil N. Jamal
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Keep at it. Persistence does pay dividends. But there is a catch; you gotta believe it before manifestation will validate conviction as [your] truth. And sacrifice is a required path to fulfillment.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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IF you want to be a winner than follow one simple rule and feed it in your mind. Take each task and work as " Do it yourself project.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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True Relations never break and relation which breaks were never true
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Time change - Moments don't.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Nothing is so rewarding than the patience that you take to go over the ramps of life. They may slow you down, but you are an unstoppable hero. Keep driving!
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Israelmore Ayivor (Daily Drive 365)
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Smiling is not a choice It’s a Lifestyle Pass it on
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Perseverance, endurance and patience are the three greatest survival skills.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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There is a miracle in your mess, don't let the mess make you miss the miracle.
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Patience Johnson (Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder)
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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. β€”NAPOLEON HILL
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Amy Morin (13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success)
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Memories of the past are what drive us, whether to a life of beauty or a life of insanity is up to us.
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Patience is the glue that binds hard work and faith.
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Charles F. Glassman (Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life)
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There's a story behind every "I don't believe in love" "Period
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Abhysheq Shukla (Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1)
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Life throws challenges but with patience and resilience you can convert every challenge into a new opportunity to grow.
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Amit Ray (Power of Exponential Mindset for Success and Leadership)
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Be (with) someone that promotes a healthy state of being: mind, body, and soul.
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Kierra C.T. Banks
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Excellence does not come easily or quickly-- an excellent education does not, a successful mission does not, a strong, loving marriage does not, rewarding personal relationships do not. It is simply a truism that nothing very valuable can come without significant sacrifice, effort, and patience on our part.
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Jeffrey R. Holland (Created for Greater Things)
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SUCCESS TONIC β€’ 1 tsp confidence β€’ 1 tsp courage β€’ 2 tsp patience β€’ 4 tsp prayer β€’ 4 tsp perseverance β€’ 4 tsp joy β€’ 6 tsp enthusiasm Take one teaspoonful of this tonic three times daily.
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Sivananda Saraswati (Samadhi Yoga)
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It takes timeβ€”even once you have all of these pieces in place, there is an indeterminate amount of time you have to put in. If you’re counting, you’ll run out of patience before success actually arrives.
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Eric Jorgenson (The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness)
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Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Life doesn't walk away, we do.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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As long as we have MEMORIES, yesterday REMAINS and as long as we have HOPE, tomorrow AWAITS...
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Don't ask creator to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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To be successful in life , Plan, Implement, Revise, Update, and Build on Change.
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do.
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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No matter how much struggle you face in your journey towards success, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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In the end it will be your β€œActions” β€œConvictions” & β€œThoughts” which will determine how you shaped your life.
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Abhysheq Shukla (The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely)
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Being Wise & Being Smart are two different things anyone can be smart but those who master the art of knowing what to overlook in this journey called life deserves to be called Wise
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Abhysheq Shukla (KISS Life "Life is what you make it")
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Success is not the result of making one good choice, of taking one step. Real success requires step, after step, after step, after step. It requires choice after choice, it demands life-long education and passion and commitment and persistence and hunger and patience.
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Jesmyn Ward (Navigate Your Stars)
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Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut
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Robert Greene (Mastery)
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I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience. I know all of the driving skills that are necessary for one to be successful in the rain. But racing in the rain is also about the mind! It is about owning one's own body. About believing that one's car is merely an extension of one's body. About believing that the track is an extension of the car, and the rain is an extension of the track, and the sky is an extension of the rain. It is about believing that you are not you; you are everything. And everything is you.
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Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain)
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There are two things to be aware of if the fight against evil inclinations is to have any chance of success. First, our efforts will never be sufficient on their own. Only the grace of Christ can win us the victory. Therefore our chief weapons are prayer, patience, and hope. Second, one passion can only be cured by another - a misplaced love by a greater love, wrong behavior by right behavior that makes provisions for the desire underlying the wrongdoing, recognizes the conscious or unconscious needs that seek fulfillment and either offers them legitimate satisfaction or transfers them to something compatible with the person's calling.
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Jacques Philippe (Interior Freedom)
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Something important I have learned is patience, and turning each failure into a learning experience. ..Instead of calling them "failures" I call them "lessons". Instead of saying, "I failed at that," I say, "I learned from that." Each failure has taught me something incredibly valuable and by recognizing this I can see the hand of God in my life in situations where most people would feel abandoned by Him.
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Lindsey Rietzsch (Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success)
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Excellence does not come easy for quickly- An Excellent education does not, a successful mission does not, a strong, loving marriage does not, rewarding personal relationships do not. It is simply a truism that nothing very valuable can come without significant sacrifice, effort, and patience on our part.
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Jeffrey R. Holland
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One of the few freedoms that we have as human beings that cannot be taken away from us is the freedom to assent to what is true and to deny what is false. Nothing you can give me is worth surrendering that freedom for. At this moment I'm a man with complete tranquillity...I've been a real estate developer for most of my life, and I can tell you that a developer lives with the opposite of tranquillity, which is perturbation. You're perturbed about something all the time. You build your first development, and right away you want to build a bigger one, and you want a bigger house to live in, and if it ain't in Buckhead, you might as well cut your wrists. Soon's you got that, you want a plantation, tens of thousands of acres devoted solely to shooting quail, because you know of four or five developers who've already got that. And soon's you get that, you want a place on Sea Island and a Hatteras cruiser and a spread northwest of Buckhead, near the Chattahoochee, where you can ride a horse during the week, when you're not down at the plantation, plus a ranch in Wyoming, Colorado, or Montana, because truly successful men in Atlanta and New York all got their ranches, and of course now you need a private plane, a big one, too, a jet, a Gulfstream Five, because who's got the patience and the time and the humility to fly commercially, even to the plantation, much less out to a ranch? What is it you're looking for in this endless quest? Tranquillity. You think if only you can acquire enough worldly goods, enough recognition, enough eminence, you will be free, there'll be nothing more to worry about, and instead you become a bigger and bigger slave to how you think others are judging you.
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Tom Wolfe (A Man in Full)
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I believe we need wilderness in order to be more complete human beings, to not be fearful of the animals that we are, an animal who bows to the incomparable power of natural forces when standing on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, an animal who understands a sense of humility when watching a grizzly overturn a stump with its front paw to forage for grubs in the lodgepole pines of the northern Rockies, an animal who weeps over the sheer beauty of migrating cranes above the Bosque del Apache in November, an animal who is not afraid to cry with delight in the middle of a midnight swim in a phospherescent tide, an animal who has not forgotten what it means to pray before the unfurled blossom of the sacred datura, remembering the source of all true visions. As we step over the threshold of the twenty-first century, let us acknowledge that the preservation of wilderness is not so much a political process as a spiritual one, that the language of law and science used so successfully to define and defend what wilderness has been in the past century must now be fully joined with the language of the heart to illuminate what these lands mean to the future.
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Terry Tempest Williams (Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert)
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The Excellence Manifesto #1 I pledge myself to patience. I pledge myself to boldness. I pledge myself to kindness. I pledge myself to prudence. I pledge myself to cheerfulness. I pledge myself to genuineness. I pledge myself to goodness. I commit to skilfulness. I commit to diligence. I commit to resourcefulness. I commit to excellence. I commit to perseverance. I commit to brilliance. I commit to transcendence.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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But confining myself more to the particular, I say that a prince may be seen happy to-day and ruined to-morrow without having shown any change of disposition or character. This, I believe, arises firstly from causes that have already been discussed at length, namely, that the prince who relies entirely upon fortune is lost when it changes. I believe also that he will be successful who directs his actions according to the spirit of the times, and that he whose actions do not accord with the times will not be successful. Because men are seen, in affairs that lead to the end which every man has before him, namely, glory and riches, to get there by various methods; one with caution, another with haste; one by force, another by skill; one by patience, another by its opposite; and each one succeeds in reaching the goal by a different method. One can also see of two cautious men the one attain his end, the other fail; and similarly, two men by different observances are equally successful, the one being cautious, the other impetuous; all this arises from nothing else than whether or not they conform in their methods to the spirit of the times. This follows from what I have said, that two men working differently bring about the same effect, and of two working similarly, one attains his object and the other does not.
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NiccolΓ² Machiavelli (The Prince)
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Mastery requires patience. The San Antonio Spurs, one of the most successful teams in NBA history, have a quote from social reformer Jacob Riis hanging in their locker room: β€œWhen nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did itβ€”but all that had gone before.
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James Clear (Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones)
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His ideal is a man who, having worked all day for the good of posterity (if that is his vocation), washes his mind of the whole subject, commits the issue to Heaven, and returns at once to the patience or gratitude demanded by the moment that is passing over him. But we want a man hag-ridden by the Futureβ€”haunted by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earthβ€”ready to break the Enemy’s commands in the present if by so doing we make him think he can attain the one or avert the otherβ€”dependent for his faith on the success or failure of schemes whose end he will not live to see. We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow’s end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap the altar of the future every real gift which is offered them in the Present.
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C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)
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Be your best self and do not imitate anyone else. Find your strengths. They are your talents. They will make you smile and cause you to real joy on the inside. Don’t listen to those who ridicule the choices you make or the dreams you share. Let no one despise your youth. As Og Mandino explained in The Greatest Salesman in the World, β€œExperience is overrated, usually by old men who nod wisely and speak stupidly.” Create your own experiences. And know that you are creating memories for a lifetime. Life is not about finding yourself; it is about creating yourself. You have to take chances to make your dreams reality. Face your fears head-on and move rapidly. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Make lots of them! Your odds for success will increase with the number of decisions you make. Have patience with your dreams and the expectations you have for others. Be impatient with yourself daily. Live as if this is your last day. Say β€œI love you” to all those who matter. Know that everyone matters. You must play full-out right now. Sit up, hold your head high. Breathe deeply. Lift your chest up. Stand up straight and with confidence. Dust yourself off. Stop being a party pooper in your own life. Smile. A bigger noticeable smile. Start acting happy. Yes, you act first. I promise the feeling of happiness will soon follow.
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Robert Smith
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If you've never shot a gun, You can’t understand how it feels in your hands. Cool to the touch, all its venom coiled inside, deadly, like a steel-scaled serpent. Awaiting your bidding. You select it’s prey… paper, tin, or flesh. You lie in wait, learn that patience is the killer’s most trustworthy accomplice. You choose the moment. What. Where. When. Decided. But the how is everything. You lift your weapon, ease it into place, cock it, to load it, knowing the satisfying snitch means a bullet is yours to command. Now, make or break, it’s all up to you. You aim knowing a hair either way means bull’s-eye or miss. Success or failure. Life or death. You have to relax, convince your muscles not to be tense, not to betray you. Sight again. Adjust. Don’t become distracted by the heat of the hunt. Instincts take over. You shoot and adrenaline screams as your target shreds or the flesh drops. And for one indescribable moment you are God.
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Ellen Hopkins (Burned (Burned, #1))
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Weapons are never the implements of good fortune, and they are to be detested. Therefore, the wise leader avoids them. Normally the wise leader values patience, but when at war he values action. Since he is opposed to the use of weapons, he uses them only when it is unavoidable, and even then with great restraint. To praise victory in war is to rejoice in the slaughter of men. The slaughter of men causes grief and sorrow to the people, therefore he who rejoices in this will not be successful. Fortune follows the restrained, misfortune follows the ambitious. Therefore victory in war should not be celebrated, but instead should be met with mourning.
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Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching)
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It is believed by many that the military life is one of adventure and excitement. In truth, that life more often consists of long periods of routine, even boredom, with only brief intervals of challenge and danger. Enemies seldom seek out their opponents. The warrior must become a hunter, searching and stalking with craft and patience. Successes are often achieved by a confluence of small things: stray facts, unwary or overheard conversations, logistical vectors. If the hunter is persistent, the pattern will become visible, and the enemy will be found. Only then will the routine be broken by combat. It's not supervising, therefore, that those seeking sometimes weary of long and arduous pursuits. They are relieved when the enemy appears of his own accord, standing firm and issuing a challenge.
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Timothy Zahn
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If you ask God for wisdom, He will give you a problem. If you ask God for success, He will give you a duty. If you ask God for riches, He will give you a dream. If you ask God for power, He will give you a task. If you ask God for patience, He will give you a burden. If you ask God for strength, He will give you a load. If you ask God for love, He will give you an enemy. If you ask God for virtue, He will give you a temptation. If you ask God for faith, He will give you a prophecy. If you ask God to be a leader, He will make you a servant. If you ask God to be a general, He will make you a soldier. If you ask God to be a teacher, He will make you a student. If you ask God to be a scholar, He will make you a thinker. If you ask God to be a writer, He will make you a reader. If you ask God to be an artist, He will make you a daydreamer. If you ask God to be a pope, He will make you a priest. If you ask God to be an architect, He will make you a builder. If you ask God to be a sage, He will make you a learner.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The Creed for the Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive (Peter's Laws) 1. If anything can go wrong, Fix it!!! (To hell with Murphy!!) 2. When given a choice - Take Both!! 3. Multiple projects lead to multiple successes. 4. Start at the top, then work your way up. 5. Do it by the book... but be the author! 6. When forced to compromise, ask for more. 7. If you can't beat them, join them, then beat them. 8. If it's worth doing, it's got to be done right now. 9. If you can't win, change the rules. 10. If you can't change the rules, then ignore them. 11. Perfection is not optional. 12. When faced without a challenge, make one. 13. "No" simply means begin again at one level higher. 14. Don't walk when you can run. 15. Bureaucracy is a challenge to be conquered with a righteous attitude, a tolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary. 16. When in doubt: THINK! 17. Patience is a virtue, but persistence to the point of success is a blessing. 18. The squeaky wheel gets replaced. 19. The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live. 20. The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!!
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Peter Safar
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But psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods, asking of course every moment for introspective data, but eliminating their uncertainty by operating on a large scale and taking statistical means. This method taxes patience to the utmost, and could hardly have arisen in a country whose natives could be bored. Such Germans as Weber, Fechner, Vierordt, and Wundt obviously cannot ; and their success has brought into the field an array of younger experimental psychologists, bent on studying the elements of the mental life, dissecting them out from the gross results in which they are embedded, and as far as possible reducing them to quantitative scales. The simple and open method of attack having done what it can, the method of patience, starving out, and harassing to death is tried ; the Mind must submit to a regular siege, in which minute advantages gained night and day by the forces that hem her in must sum themselves up at last into her overthrow. There is little of the grand style about these new prism, pendulum, and chronograph-philosophers. They mean business, not chivalry. What generous divination, and that superiority in virtue which was thought by Cicero to give a man the best insight into nature, have failed to do, their spying and scraping, their deadly tenacity and almost diabolic cunning, will doubtless some day bring about. No general description of the methods of experimental psychology would be instructive to one unfamiliar with the instances of their application, so we will waste no words upon the attempt.
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William James (The Principles of Psychology: Volume 1)
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I have missed it my little Chinese book. Forty-four. What is more important, fame or integrity. What is more valuable, money or happiness. What is more dangerous, success or failure. If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy. Be content with what you have and take joy in the way things are. When you realize you have all you need, the World belongs to you. Thirty-six. If you want to shrink something, you must first expand it. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must allow it to be given. The soft will overcome the hard. The slow will beat the fast. Don’t tell people the way, just show them the results. Seventy-four. If you understand that all things change constantly, there is nothing you will hold on to, all things change. If you aren’t afraid of dying, there is nothing you can’t do. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the place of the Master Carpenter. When you handle the Master Carpenter’s tools, chances are that you’ll cut your hand. Thirty-three. Knowing other people is intelligence, knowing yourself is wisdom. Mastering other people is strength, mastering yourself is power. If you realize that what you have is enough, you are rich truly rich. Stay in the center and embrace peace, simplicity, patience and compassion. Embrace the possibility of death and you will endure. Embrace the possibility of life and you will endure. This little book feeds me. It feeds me food I didn’t know existed, feeds me food I wanted to taste, and have never tasted before, food that will nourish me and keep me full and keep me alive. I read it and it feeds me. It lets me see what my life is in simple terms, it simply is what it is, and I can deal with my life on those terms. It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is no more than a second, a minute no more than a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time will pass. Don’t force or fear, don’t control or lose control. Don’t fight and don’t stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.
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James Frey (A Million Little Pieces)