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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

— J. Paul Getty

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

— Olive Schreiner

To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.

— Chin-Ning Chu

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

— Theodore Roosevelt

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

— Plato

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

— Thomas Fuller

When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.

— Jules Verne

✗Opposing Perspectives

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

— Ho Chi Minh