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No use being a damn fool about it. Fields Click to tweet. The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something. Naval Ravikant Click to tweet. The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation. My success is not who I am. Judith Guest Click to tweet. You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is. The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. Criss Jami This is one of my favorite success quote. Success is not in what you have, but who you are. Bo Bennett Click to tweet. Nelson Mandela Click to tweet. The true success is the person who invented himself. Al Goldstein Click to tweet.

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Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success.

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. There are no gains without pains. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. Success is a lousy teacher.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. You may also like inspirational quotes motivational quotes love quotes happiness quotes life quotes. Success is the child of audacity. Benjamin Disraeli Click to tweet. Measure your success according to fun and creativity.

To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson Click to tweet. When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

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No one who strives to bring new life to something significant should be too quick to abandon the hope that he will succeed. Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor. To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world — that I am able to change it in positive ways.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings. I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. Winners are not afraid of losing. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.

You must set yourself on fire. Those who are successful overcome their fears and take action. Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds.

As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success. Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning. Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. Why be a king, when you can be a god? Eminem Click to tweet. I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else. Success is always less funny than failure.

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Jon Ronson Click to tweet. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. The great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success? Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. To comprehend a nectar — requires sorest need. The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

There is only one kind of success that really matters: This is the kind of success, the kind of power, that will benefits us and others without causing any damage. We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. Gustave Flaubert Click to tweet. There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Be careful, ever so careful, in trumpeting your own achievements, and always talk less about yourself than about other people.

Modesty is generally preferable. Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. This is the final test of a gentleman: How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.

Because someday in life you will have been all of these. Those who succeed and are happy know that the goal is to be authentic and memorable and make a difference, not to be understood and liked by everyone. Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. We need to internalize this idea of excellence.

Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. I have the drive to work. Perseverance — a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. It is so hard, you pour so much of your life into this thing, there are such rough moments in time, that most people give up.

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As Bonaparte disapproved of the author, Dumas fled in to Brussels , Belgium, which was also an effort to escape his creditors. About , he moved to Russia , where French was the second language of the elite and his writings were enormously popular. Dumas spent two years in Russia and visited St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Astrakhan and Tbilisi, before leaving to seek different adventures. He published travel books about Russia.

Dumas travelled there and for the next three years participated in the movement for Italian unification. He founded and led a newspaper, Indipendente. While there, he befriended Giuseppe Garibaldi , whom he had long admired and with whom he shared a commitment to liberal republican principles as well as membership within Freemasonry. Despite Dumas' aristocratic background and personal success, he had to deal with discrimination related to his mixed-race ancestry. In , he wrote a short novel, Georges , that addressed some of the issues of race and the effects of colonialism.

His response to a man who insulted him about his African ancestry has become famous. My father was a mulatto , my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends. She had performed her sensational role in Mazeppa in London. In Paris, she had a sold-out run of Les Pirates de la Savanne and was at the peak of her success. These women were among Dumas' nearly 40 mistresses found by scholar Claude Schopp, in addition to three natural children.

His death was overshadowed by the Franco-Prussian War. Changing literary fashions decreased his popularity. In the late twentieth century, scholars such as Reginald Hamel and Claude Schopp have caused a critical reappraisal and new appreciation of his art, as well as finding lost works. Frank Wild Reed — , the older brother of Dunedin publisher A.

Reed , was a busy Whangarei pharmacist who never visited France, yet he amassed the greatest collection of books and manuscripts relating to Dumas outside France. It contains about volumes, including some sheets in Dumas' handwriting and dozens of French, Belgian and English first editions. This collection was donated to Auckland Libraries after his death.

With you, we were D'Artagnan, Monte Cristo, or Balsamo, riding along the roads of France, touring battlefields, visiting palaces and castles—with you, we dream. His novels have been translated into nearly languages. In addition, they have inspired more than motion pictures. Dumas described a fictional character killing Lord Nelson Nelson was shot and killed by an unknown sniper.

Writing and publishing the novel serially in , Dumas had nearly finished it before his death. It was the third part of the Sainte-Hermine trilogy. Claude Schopp, a Dumas scholar, noticed a letter in an archive in that led him to discover the unfinished work. It took him years to research it, edit the completed portions, and decide how to treat the unfinished part.

Schopp finally wrote the final two-and-a-half chapters, based on the author's notes, to complete the story. Translated into English, it was released in as The Last Cavalier , and has been translated into other languages. Schopp has since found additional material related to the Saints-Hermine saga.

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Schopp combined them to publish the sequel Le Salut de l'Empire in Dumas is briefly mentioned in the film Django Unchained. The Southern slaveholder Calvin Candie expressed admiration for Dumas, owning his books in his library and even naming one of his slaves D'Artagnan. He is surprised to learn from another white man that Dumas was black his father's mother was a slave of African descent [4]. Alexandre Dumas wrote numerous stories and historical chronicles of high adventure.

They included the following:. The Valois were the royal house of France from to , so, many of Dumas romances cover their reign. Traditionally, the so-called "Valois Romances" are the three that portray the Reign of Queen Marguerite , the last of the Valois:. The Marie Antoinette romances comprise eight novels. The unabridged versions normally chapters or more comprise only five books numbers 1,3,4,7 and 8 ; the short versions 50 chapters or less number eight in total:. Although best known now as a novelist, Dumas first earned fame as a dramatist.

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It had fifty performances over the next year, extraordinary at the time. Dumas wrote many plays and adapted several of his novels as dramas. Dumas was a prolific writer of nonfiction. He wrote journal articles on politics and culture and books on French history. His lengthy Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine Great Dictionary of Cuisine was published posthumously in A combination of encyclopaedia and cookbook, it reflects Dumas' interests as both a gourmet and an expert cook.