F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Success Quotes, Destiny Quotes

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

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Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.

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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

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PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

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

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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

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There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.

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Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

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