Herodotus Quotes
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
Herodotus
Quotes to Explore
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
Gail Sheehy
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
Ramana Maharshi
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
Flume
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
Quentin Blake
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X
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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
Ram Dass
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
Irwin Redlener
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
Walter Bagehot
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It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
Hakan Nesser
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I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
Vanilla Ice
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I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.
Vanilla Ice
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What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
Chilon of Sparta
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You can’t become a saint by taking dope, stealing your friends’ typewriters, giving girls chancres, not supporting your wife and children, and then reading St. John of the Cross. All of that, when it’s happened before, has typified the collapse of civilization … and today the social fabric is falling apart so fast, it makes your head swim.
Kenneth Rexroth
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The moon is a loyal companion.
Tahereh Mafi
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
Barbra Streisand
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I watch mostly documentaries and things that aren't remotely funny.
Christopher Guest
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The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
Herodotus
