If achieving your potential ...

If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
 Marilyn vos Savant

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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.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
 Marilyn vos Savant
Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.
 Marilyn vos Savant
The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.
 Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
 Marilyn vos Savant
What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from.
 Marilyn vos Savant