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- Character consists of what you do on the third and forth tries.
- James Mechener
- Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- The slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as can help him in making his fortune.
- Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually afraid you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Every man is important is he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no difference between men.
- Pascal
- The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.
- Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
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