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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern

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Zig Ziglar
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Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1926 to 2012; Wikidata Q373830, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q373830 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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