Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain on drive, action, and pushing past resistance, distilled into a single line: "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was her...". It is one of the more shared lines in our motivation collection, and for good reason.
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