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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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....

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 command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

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

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...

Art is a revolt against fate.

Art is a revolt against fate.

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets

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

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

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...

An art book is a museum without walls.

An art book is a museum without walls.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with...

The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with...

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism...

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism...