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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.


Ramana Maharshi
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
Vera Wang
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Mediocrity is underrated.


Mary-Louise Parker
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
Swami Sivananda
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
Laura Fraser
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Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.


Ellen Glasgow
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.


Victor Hugo
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Heller
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.


Max Beerbohm
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We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
Wendy Kopp
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
James Fenton
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The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.


Anne Rice
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Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.


David Bowie
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Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.


Margot Fonteyn
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.


Samuel Johnson
Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.
Gabriel Macht
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If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton.
Sebastian Horsley
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Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Citium Zeno