Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 30.
As quoted in How They Succeeded (1901) by Orison Swett Marden
Context: I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/10/17/liberal-arts-are-best-preparation-even-business-career-essay
“It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.”
The Guardian, London, Not roquette science, 2005-10-29, 2010-05-20 http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/houseandgarden/0,,1602953,00.html,
From books
Source: Jean Vanier, Community And Growth, 1979
“Self-perception is more important than any other factor in predicting success.”
Future Proofing You (2021)
“There is more to be gained by producing more opportunities than by optimizing existing ones.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
The Railroad Trainman (November 1909)
Source: Everyone is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race (2015), pp. 154–155.
“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
"Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company." This was a French maxim, late 16th century, as quoted by George Washington in his "Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation," Rule # 56 (ca. 1744) http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/civility/transcript.html
Misattributed
