"success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone" meaning in English

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Proverb

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  1. Success is achieved by hard work, not by merely wishing for it.
    Sense id: en-success_depends_on_your_backbone,_not_your_wishbone-en-proverb-rnfklLO1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English proverbs

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