Whether our efforts are, or ...

Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.
Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.
 Louis Pasteur

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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
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton

Quotes from the same author

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
 Louis Pasteur
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
 Louis Pasteur
Chance favors the prepared mind.
 Louis Pasteur
I propose to provide proof... that just as always an alcoholic ferment, the yeast of beer, is found where sugar is converted into alcohol and carbonic acid, so always a special ferment, a lactic yeast, is found where sugar is transformed into lactic acid. And, furthermore, when any plastic nitrogenated substance is able to transform sugar into that acid, the reason is that it is a suitable nutrient for the growth of the [lactic] ferment.
 Louis Pasteur
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
 Louis Pasteur