“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.
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Albert Schweitzer 126
French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosoph… 1875–1965Related quotes
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1931 - 1943
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
Introduction, p. xi.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
Context: I ask myself: are defeats necessary?
Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
The Great Master of Thought (Amen- Vol.3), Observing management
Herbert N. Casson in: Forbes (1948). p. 42
1920s-1940s