I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

Florence Nightingale

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Buck stops here Success Excuses Personal responsibility

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Florence Nightingale

Source

Letters of Florence Nightingale

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1861 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Social reformer Nurse

From

Italy Europe

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Citation

Nightingale, Florence. Letter to Miss H. Bonham Carter. 1861.

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I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.

John Stuart Mill

Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy

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Topic
Goodness of God Nature of God God

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John Stuart Mill
Source
Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy
Medium
Essay
Genre
Philosophical writing
Language
English
Time
1865 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Mill, John Stuart. Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. An Examination of Sir. William Hamilton's Philosophy. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, edited by John M. Robson. Vol. 9, Routledge, 2009, ch. 7.

Another quote about Success

I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

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Topic
Success and failure Success Failure
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Michael Jordan
Medium
TV commercial
Language
English
Time
1997 1990s 20th century
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Citation

"Failure." Directed by Mark Romanek. Performed by Michael Jordan. Nike, May 1997.

Another quote from 1861

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Abraham Lincoln

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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Topic
Democratic theory
Speaker
Abraham Lincoln
Source
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln Presidential inaugural address
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1861 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1861, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugral Address, March 4, 1861." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.