Alain de Botton Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Success Quotes

Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.

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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

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The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

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It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

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Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.

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

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If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

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Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

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The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.

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Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

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Ignorance is not an extension of time

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

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