“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist
Source: The Lazarus Project
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist
“To lose the thing we love is greater pain
Than to desire and never to obtain.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
Che lasciar quel che s'ama, e peggio assai
Che disiarlo, e non averlo mai.
XVII, 6
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.”
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 3 “The Mad King” (p. 27)
Alexander McCall Smith book Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, chapter 1.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
“A little wit and plenty of authority, that is what has almost always governed the world.”
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597–1654) French author, best known for his epistolary essays
Un peu d'esprit et beaucoup d'autorité, c'est ce qui a presque toujours gouverné le monde.
Socrate Chrétien, Discours VIII.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 230.
Socrate Chrétien (1662)
“Plenty of eloquence, not enough wisdom”
Satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum.
Sallust (-86–-34 BC) Roman historian, politician
said of Catiline
Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC)