"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, Life, Lie, Failure

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"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."

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"When you focus on diligence and hard work miracle will come to you."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"You want to achieve your dreams early, right? I know of only one back door; that's HARDWORK. Only few people use that entrance so the advantage is that there is no or less traffic there!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"You multiply your life when you invest it."

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"Christians are becoming disengaged in following the Scripture that tells us not to conform to the world's system."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"The person who will end up enjoying success, is the one who planned for it and who knew why they are seeking to succeed."

Archibald Marwizi, Zimbabwean Author

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"Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man's goal is imitation, not redemption."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The knowledge of the purpose of the success that you receive by grace in every area will keep us from pride and the love of money."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied."

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"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

Experience, Sense

"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul."

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"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."

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"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, Life, Lie, Failure

"I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am."

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"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."

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"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"

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"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."

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