Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Quote by Andre Malraux

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All art is a revolt against man's fate.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to...

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to...

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world...

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world...

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love....

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love....

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing...

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing...

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither...

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither...

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes...

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes...

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random...

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random...

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing...

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing...

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets

Creating nickname for your crush, that only you and your friends know.

Creating nickname for your crush, that only you and your friends know.

A mans spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in...

A mans spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in...