Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
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Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.
Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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