Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYPray God, keep us simple.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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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.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Humor is wit and love.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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