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The Times Great Quotations: Famous quotes to inform, motivate and inspire

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The two kinds of people on earth I mean are the people who lift, and the people who lean.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American writer and poet (1850–1919)



I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took any excuse.

Florence Nightingale, English social reformer and nurse (1820–1910)



The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Man and Superman (1903)

George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856–1950)



Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Graham Greene, English writer (1904–1991)



If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Henry Ford, American industrialist and businessman (1863–1947)



Not in the clamour of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (1807–1882)



Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

Lycidas (1637)

John Milton, English poet (1608–1674)



All the world’s great have been little boys who wanted the moon.

Cup of Gold (1929)

John Steinbeck, American writer (1902–1968)



Whether our efforts are, or not, favoured by life, let us be able to say when we come near the great goal, “I have done what I could”.

Louis Pasteur, French biologist and chemist (1822–1895)



I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist (1867–1934)



All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain, American writer (1835–1910)



To live at all is miracle enough.

Mervyn Peake, English writer (1911–1968)



In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Pensеes et fragments inеdits

Montesquieu, French political philosopher (1689–1755)



The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

New England Reformers (1844)

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet, essayist and philosopher (1803–1882)



The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Samuel Johnson, English writer, critic and lexicographer (1709–1784)


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