“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
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Benjamin Disraeli 306
British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Pri… 1804–1881Related quotes
“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
Memoirs of Childhood and Youth (1924)
Variant: A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Context: The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. That is possible for him who never argues and strives with men and facts, but in all experience retires upon himself, and looks for the ultimate cause of things in himself.
“If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?”
La condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)
“When a man’s success becomes commonplace to him, it is his success no longer.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 104
“The seed comes when the field is ready, greatness comes when the mind is ready.”
Kratu-A Novel ( Page 270 )
“Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.”
See You at the Top (2000)
“The aphorism "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he" contains the secret of life.”
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 4; Lee here quotes Proverbs 23:7 "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he."
Oscar Wilde, letter to More Adey, May 12, 1897, quoted in Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932) p. 102.
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“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”