In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Le succes de la plupart des choses depend de bien savoir combien il faut de temps pour reussir.

Montesquieu

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Success Persistence

Author

Montesquieu

Medium

Essay

Language

French

Time

1755 1750s 18th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

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France Europe

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Citation

Montesquieu. Pensees et fragments inedits De Montesquieu [Thoughts and Unpublished Fragments of Montesquieu]. G. Gounouilhou, 1901.

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Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic
Untapped potential Human potential Genius Education

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)
Source
Poor Richard's Almanack
Medium
Almanac
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages
Language
English
Time
1750 1750s 18th century
Era
Colonial America
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Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1750.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

Another quote about Success

You don't ever have to do anything sensational for people to love you.

Fred Rogers

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Topic
Recognition Achievement Success Self-worth
Speaker
Fred Rogers
Source
2002 Dartmouth commencement address
Medium
Speech
Genre
Commencement address
Statement Type
Advice
Language
English
Time
2002 2000s 21st century
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Citation

Rogers, Fred. Commencement address to the Dartmouth Class of 2002. Commencement cermony. 2002, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

Another quote originally in French

The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Topic
Existential solitude Connecting with others Isolation The human condition

Author

Marcel Proust
Source
The Fugitive In Search of Lost Time
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
French
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.