"Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt."

-- Dimitris Mitropoulos

#Success Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Usefulness Quotes

“I don't need to tell you that, what determines a man's legacy is often what isn't seen.”

Source : "Fictional character: J. Edgar Hoover". "J. Edgar", www.imdb.com. 2011.
“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”
“I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.”
“I can live my legacy or just have led a busy life.”
“I have a vision of a world where we don't continue down senseless paths, where we care for our fellow human as much as we care for ourselves. I believe the mere striving for such a world is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner and global security.”
“Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.”
“Boys don't mature. They just age. But aged boys know how to flow with a different destination, and to shine with different color.”
“Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.”

Source : "The Making of a Bestseller: From Author to Reader" by Arthur T. Vanderbilt, (p. 135), 1999.

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