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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Jesus loves me, this I know,
For the Bible tells me so.

Anna Bartlett Warner

The Love of Jesus

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Jesus's love Jesus

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Anna Bartlett Warner
Source
The Love of Jesus
Medium
Hymn Song
Language
English
Time
1860 1860s 19th century
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Citation

Warner, Anna Bartlett. Quoted in "Jesus Loves Me, This I Know." Say and Seal, written by Susan Warner. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1860.

Another quote about Success

A purpose is the eternal condition of success. Nothing will take its place. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb... Education will not; the country is full of unsuccessful educated men... There is no road to success but through a clear, strong purpose.

Theodore T. Munger

On the Threshold

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How to succeed Success

Author

Theodore T. Munger
Source
On the Threshold
Language
English
Time
1881 1880s 19th century
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Citation

Munger, Theodore T. On the Threshold. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881, ch. 1.

Another quote from 1861

One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Atlantic Monthly

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Battles of Lexington and Concord American Revolution

Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source
Paul Revere's Ride The Atlantic Monthly
Medium
Poem Magazine
Language
English
Time
1861 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Paul Revere's Ride." The Atlantic Monthly, Jan. 1861.

Current Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, st. 2.