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- The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
- Brendan Francis
- Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
- C. C. Colton
- When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do, so long as what they want isn't dangerously unlawful, stupidly unsociable or obviously impossible. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't.
- James G. Cozzens
- To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
- Nelson Boswell
- Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
- Charles Buxton
- One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
- Percival
- To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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