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Fernando Pessoa

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Fernando Pessoa

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Success is about actually achieving your goals rather than just having the ability or opportunity to do so. Just like land only becomes a palace when someone constructs it, potential only turns into success through real action and results.

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