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If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

— Joyce Brothers It's All About You: Live the Life You Crave (2007)

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When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.

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When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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