William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Up
  • High
  • Success

• It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Never
  • Goal

• I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
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  • City

• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Success
  • Years
  • Overnight

• This may sound funny, but I feel my most beautiful when I'm clean, fresh out of the bath. I don't have to be dressed up. I could be in comfy clothes at home hanging out with my family.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Family
  • May

• I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • People
  • Up
  • Funny

• My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Voice
  • Blessed

• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • See
  • Others

• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Two

• I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Goal
  • Upset

• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Courage
  • inspirational
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• As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• There are so many immigrant-led success stories in the United States, and the fact that it's gotten so much harder for educated folks to stay here is really unfortunate.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Success
  • Here
  • Educated

• I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Real
  • Success

• Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Situation
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• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lies
  • inspirational
  • Comparison

• The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Success
  • Story
  • Achieve

• Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Life
  • Demands
  • Creditors

• I grew up always wanting to be a part of 'Idol,' and I never thought I would make it as far as I did. I was really lucky, and it's given me the opportunities that I have now.

  

  Jessica Sanchez
  • Up

• I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.

  

  Jenson Button
  • Age
  • Black

• Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is safe to say that we know for sure that natural selection, as a process, does work. There is a mountain of experimental and observational evidence, much of it predating genetics, which shows that natural selection as a biological process works.

  

  David M. Raup
  • Problem
  • Mountain
  • Natural

• Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be viewed in any other light than as the efficient Auxiliary and Handmaid of Religion?

  

  William Buckland
  • Evidence
  • Attributes
  • Efficient

• Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Success
  • Funny
  • Goal