What is something you were told by a parent, teacher, or mentor that you still repeat to yourself?

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Ralph Nader Lawyer and consumer advocate; author of Unsafe at Any Speed

But if it did well, I’d remember what my parents told me, which was the hardest thing is not attaining success, it’s being able to endure it.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 16 February 1991 source ↗

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