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Autobiography and memoir3 quotes
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Success is more dangerous than failure, (the ripples break over a wider coastline). — Graham Greene · 1980Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. — Viktor Frankl · 1946Biography2 quotes
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least. — Leonardo da Vinci · 1568The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people. — George Bernard Shaw · 1949Commencement address2 quotes
You don't ever have to do anything sensational for people to love you. — Fred Rogers · 2002It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our lives, from which we make our choices, is very good stuff. — Fred Rogers · 2002Philosophical literature2 quotes
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. — Confucius · 221 BCThus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1821Political speech2 quotes
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business—you didn't build that. — Barack Obama · 2012There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there–good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. — Elizabeth Warren · 2011Black comedy1 quote
Call me crazy, but it is my philosophy that in order to be successful, one must project an image of success, at all times. — Buddy Kane · 1999Black comedy (film)1 quote
Call me crazy, but it is my philosophy that in order to be successful, one must project an image of success, at all times. — Buddy Kane · 1999Comedy (play)1 quote
Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall. — William Shakespeare · 1616Comedy drama1 quote
Call me crazy, but it is my philosophy that in order to be successful, one must project an image of success, at all times. — Buddy Kane · 1999Comedy drama (film)1 quote
Call me crazy, but it is my philosophy that in order to be successful, one must project an image of success, at all times. — Buddy Kane · 1999Religious literature1 quote
May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. — Psalm 20:4 · 450 BCTragedy (play)1 quote
And he who servilely creeps after sense,
Is safe, but ne'er will reach an Excellence. — John Dryden · 1669