Quote by Ellen Glasgow
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or fina

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. – Ellen Glasgow

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The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. – Ellen Glasgow

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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow

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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. – Denis Waitley

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I dont think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent. – Jeanne Moreau

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I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. – Alan Shepard

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Hopefully Ill continue to have the success Ive had. – Tiger Woods

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