"Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance."

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Source : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.89, Belford Bros.

Suzanne Curchod

#Perseverance Quotes #Want Quotes #Faults Quotes

“The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.”
“You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.”
“We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways everywhere that will not only be a credit to the American people but that will also mean much to American agriculture and American commerce.”
“Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.”
“Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.”
“The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.”
“Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.”
“I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.”

Source : "India's man for all seasons" by Siddharth Srivastava, www.atimes.com. September 29, 2004.

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