"Under normal periods any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does."
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"Under normal periods any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does."
"The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works."
"No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities."
"No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You."
"Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline."
"If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one."
"It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room."
"If you want to succeed you must make your own opportunities as you go."
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
"One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on."
"When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored."
"No-one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds."
"No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness."
"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."
"Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves it is as fancy as big as little as you please just a thing of contrasts and comparisons."
"Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves don't accuse the sun of partiality."
"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive."
"If you do not find peace in yourself you will never find it anywhere else."
"I am responsible for my own well-being my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence the quality of my days."
"I am my own heaven and hell!"
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