We cannot of ourselves ...

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.
We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.
 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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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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As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.
 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.
 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.
 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton