Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

—Anthony Trollope

About Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope ( TROL-əp; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era.

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Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

—Anthony Trollope

Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

—Anthony Trollope

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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

—Anna Pavlova

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

—Albert Schweitzer

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

—Albert Einstein

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

—Albert Einstein

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

—Abraham Lincoln

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