The way to acquire lasting ...

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer\'s faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
 Oliver Goldsmith

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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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Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
 Oliver Goldsmith
As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.
 Oliver Goldsmith
Silence is become his mother tongue.
 Oliver Goldsmith
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
 Oliver Goldsmith
Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.
 Oliver Goldsmith