You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip, you can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.

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"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

Resilience

"Nobody built like you, you design yourself."

- Jay-Z

Empowerment

"You learn more in failure than you ever do in success."

- Jay-Z

Learning from Mistakes

"A loss ain’t a loss, it’s a lesson."

- Jay-Z

Learning from Mistakes

"Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow."

- Jay-Z

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"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

- Tony Robbins

Success

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

Success

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle

Success

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

Success

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

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