Bessie Anderson Stanley (1879–1952) American poet
What is success?, quoted in He Has Achieved Success Who Has Lived Well, Laughed Often and Loved Much, in QuoteInvestigator.com (26 June 2012) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/26/define-success/.
Bessie Anderson Stanley (1879–1952) American poet
What is success?, quoted in He Has Achieved Success Who Has Lived Well, Laughed Often and Loved Much, in QuoteInvestigator.com (26 June 2012) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/26/define-success/.
Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) Scottish author
Source: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859), Ch. XI : Self-Culture — Facilities and Difficulties
“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
As quoted in Thomas Alva Edison : Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life (1908) by Francis Arthur Jones, p. 14.
1900s
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
“Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.”
Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945) writer, actress; Romanian princess
Haven (1951)
Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) Scottish author
Source: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859), Ch. XI : Self-Culture — Facilities and Difficulties.
Source: The Lives Of George And Robert Stephenson
Context: We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter