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)
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I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale, English social reformer and nurse (1820–1910)
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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)
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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
Graham Greene, English writer (1904–1991)
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford, American industrialist and businessman (1863–1947)
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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)
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Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
Lycidas (1637)
John Milton, English poet (1608–1674)
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All the world’s great have been little boys who wanted the moon.
Cup of Gold (1929)
John Steinbeck, American writer (1902–1968)
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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)
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I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain, American writer (1835–1910)
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To live at all is miracle enough.
Mervyn Peake, English writer (1911–1968)
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In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Pensеes et fragments inеdits
Montesquieu, French political philosopher (1689–1755)
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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)
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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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