Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.


Walter Scott

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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
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The quickest way to succeed is to keep your mistakes closer than your desire for success.
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Within you, right in your mind is your key to success
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Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.
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Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of succes...
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Even if I'm not asleep, that doesn't mean I'm awake.
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I am half asleep but the negotiations are wide awake.
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Don't ignore your dreams, in them your soul is awake and you are your true self.
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When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream toge...
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I feel like I'm sleeping when I'm awake, and really living when I'm asleep.
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Always keep an open mind,for only an open mind can direct you to your success destination.
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To get success and happiness in life concentrate your whole power and mind in the good work you are ...
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I had a dream I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
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I can’t tell anymore when I’m asleep and when I’m awake, or which is worse.
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And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him,...
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The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you o...
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Let your dreams keep you awake
JORGE EDUARDO CONTRERAS SALCEDO
Awake your soul to happy memories.
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If you really desire greatness, you should make up your mind to be a hard worker.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness a...
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I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.
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I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
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•Ignite your heart¨¨¨*•with then felt.•♥•.¸¸awake your senses .•then left•♥•....
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When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.
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Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself
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Almost the entire world is asleep. Those who are awake live in constant amazement.
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It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.
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It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake
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You shall only continue to feel bitter when you continue to make your mind the doorstep for footprin...
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Your mind can destroy your life! Mind your mind; think well! Detoxify your thought and be free!
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If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z ke...
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Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
ANONYMOUS
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
ANONYMOUS
If you think of failure in your mind, you are one step farther away from success.
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Wake up.
If your eyes are sleeping
then wipe them gently.
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Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember.
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Live your vision and demand your success.
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Your failures contain key to your success and your destination
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When in love
try keeping your heart sane.
Once it loses sanity
the mind usually fol...
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ANONYMOUS
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Don't you ever think that your mind can never harm you just because it is your mind! Your mind can r...
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Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now...
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Be careful what you wish for.Because if your desire goes down into your subconscious mind it will ha...
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Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose
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Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.
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Dreams foreshadow your life. Think hard about what you saw while you were asleep and connect it to y...
ADNAN BAHATTI
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
BRIAN TRACY
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR.
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR.
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everyth...
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When first we practise to deceive!
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
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And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but death who comes at last.
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To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses.
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With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
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Art thou a friend to Roderick?
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea, The orange flower perfumes the bow...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
That day of wrath, that dreadful day, when heaven and earth shall pass away.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
And come he slow, or come he fast,
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through
SIR WALTER SCOTT
The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
I am enamoured of my journal
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown
SIR WALTER SCOTT
True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Scared out of his seven senses.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It [true love] is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Delightful praise!--like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows, The bashful maiden'...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high; "I drink to one," he sa...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour o...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT