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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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.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West...

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West...

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

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...

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...

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...

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

Art is a revolt against fate.

Art is a revolt against fate.

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...

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...

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

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

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought,...

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought,...

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...

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...

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by...

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by...

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...