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Quote by Florence Nightingale
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale

Other quotes by Florence Nightingale

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. – Florence Nightingale

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Death
Author
Florence Nightingale
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. – Florence Nightingale

Category:
Martyr, Martyrdom
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Florence Nightingale
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Other Quotes from
Success
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Like so many American families, our families werent asking for much. They didnt begrudge anyone elses success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it. – Michelle Obama

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Success

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success. – Denis Waitley

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Success

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call “the breaks.” – Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

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Success

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. – Samuel Smiles

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Success

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There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke 16:3 – Bible

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Pride

Letters to absence can a voice impart,
And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. – Horace Walpole

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Letters (writing)

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if were some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. Its a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. – Paul Ryan

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Government