Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 36.
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
From The Life and Works of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones, Vol. I, ch. 1 (1953) p. 5 <br class="br">Eine Kindheitserinnerung aus »Dichtung und Wahrheit«, first published in the journal Imago, vol. 5 issue 2 (1917), p. 57 books. google http://books.google.com/books?id=05FXAAAAMAAJ&q=Eroberergef%C3%BChl = http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29946/29946-h/29946-h.htm <br class="br">1910s
“The conscience is the best and most impartial judge that a righteous man has.”
José de San Martín (1778–1850) Argentine general and independence leader
La conciencia es el mejor y más imparcial juez que tiene el hombre de bien.
Letter from Brussels (18 December 1827), quoted in La Rivista de Buenos Aires (1864) edited by Miguel Navarro Viola y Vicente G. Quesada, Vol. 4
“The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
“The only true man is one who practices ‘humanism.’ (…) this is the only way to success in life.”
Haidakhan Babaji teacher in northern India
Humanity
Source: The Teachings of Babaji, 29 October 1983.
“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
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.
