You can commit no greater ...

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
 John Bartholomew Gough

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Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
 John Bartholomew Gough
If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
 John Bartholomew Gough
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
 John Bartholomew Gough