A tragic irony of life is ...

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
 Ellen Glasgow

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Once you get the nod, your mentality totally changes. It's like a heavyweight fighter-you win the title and that's it, you don't want to look back and you don't want to change. That's the way I feel and I'm looking to keep the job.?
 Mark Sanchez
Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.
 Sebastian Coe

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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
 Ellen Glasgow
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
 Ellen Glasgow
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
 Ellen Glasgow
So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.
 Ellen Glasgow
...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.
 Ellen Glasgow