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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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...

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

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...

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

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....

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Art is a revolt against fate.

Art is a revolt against fate.

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

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

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...

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love...

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love...

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

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,...

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in...

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in...