"All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it."

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Source : Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.220, Courier Corporation

Robert Collier

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“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”
“I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.”
“I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.”
“It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.”
“[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.”
“I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.”
“All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses”

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