Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Achievement
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Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!
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Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
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