“If a man is not bound down, he is sure to succeed.”
Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone
Bell Telephone Talk (1901)
“The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.”
— Henry Ford, book My Life and Work
My Life and Work (1922)
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Address in Memphis, Tennessee (25 October 1905) http://www.trsite.org/content/pages/speaking-loudly <br class="br">1900s
“A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.”
Thomas Merton book No Man Is an Island
Source: No Man Is an Island
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
A jibe directed at Ramsay MacDonald, during a speech in the House of Commons, March 23, 1933 "European Situation" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1933/mar/23/european-situation#column_544. This quote is similar to a remark (“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met”) made by Abraham Lincoln. [Frederick Trevor Hill credits Lincoln with this remark in Lincoln the Lawyer (1906), adding that ‘History has considerately sheltered the identity of the victim’.] <br class="br">The 1930s
“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy, p. 91
Context: He who suffers time to slip away and does not grow in virtue the more one thinks about him the sadder one becomes. No man has a capacity for virtue who sacrifices honour for gain. Fortune is powerless to help one who does not exert himself. That man becomes happy who follows Christ. There is no perfect gift without great suffering. Our triumphs and our pomps pass away; gluttony and sloth and enervating luxury have banished every virtue from the world; so that as it were wandering from its course our nature is subdued by habit. Now and henceforth it is meet that you cure yourself of laziness. The Master has said that sitting on down or lying under the quilts will not bring thee to fame. He who without it has frittered life away leaves no more trace of himself upon the earth than smoke does in the air or the foam on the water.
Louis Nizer (1902–1994) American lawyer
Between You and Me, Beechurst Press, 1948.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838) French diplomat
Reported in, C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. (1917).
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Part I. Généralités (Generalities), Chapter I. Prolégomènes (Prolegomena).
Treatise on Elegant Life (1830)
Original: (fr) Or les trois classes d'être créés par les mœurs sont :
L'homme qui travaille ;
L'homme qui pense ;
L'homme qui ne fait rien.