Leon Gambetta famous quotes

03-26-2025

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ***** back?
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
I bought an organic rice milk. Frozen.....I'm not going to make something I don't know how to make, I don't have a recipe for.
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
There is no recipe for success - it is as unique as you are

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