The two maxims of any great ...

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.