 | 1857 - 594 pages
...!'' And he becomes great. His works are the admiration of thousands. It has been shrewdly remarked that " the great difference between men — between...powerful, the great and the insignificant — is energy • iavincible determination." Energy and determination. These qualitics, when directed towards legitimate... | |
 | 1857 - 784 pages
...and success must crown your endeavours." A powerful will can do great things. The great difference between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy, invincible determination and purpose. No talents are of much use if this quality be wanting. But John Cutts had... | |
 | 1858 - 348 pages
...soul.' " Therein lay the real element of this man's success. His own motto, in his own words, was, " The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 pages
...Like a star on eternity's ocean. LVm. — SELECT PARAGRAPHS IN PROSE. ENERGY. SIR T. POWELL BUXTOK. THE longer I live, the more I am certain that the...great and the insignificant, is energy, invincible determination. A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do any thing that... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...instances. The history of heroes is the history of youth. D'lBRAELI. The longer I live, the more am I certain that the great difference between men, —...and the insignificant,— is energy,— invincible determination, — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That talent can do anything that... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 368 pages
...his own words, which every young man might well stamp upon his soul: " The longer I live," said he, " the more I am certain that the great difference between...the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy—invincible determination—a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory! That quality will... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution. ENERGY. — (SiR TF BUXTON.) THE longer I live, the more I am certain that the...great and the insignificant, is energy, invincible determination. A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that... | |
 | Wit - 1860 - 282 pages
...mind, not to be moved by any adversity. — Walsingham. " The longer I live," says Sir TF Buxton, " the more I am certain that the great difference between...great and the insignificant — is energy, invincible determination, a purpose once fixed in, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that... | |
 | 1847 - 372 pages
...of fire upon his retrospective vision, when he stood upon the brink of the eternal world, was this, that the " great difference between men — between...great and the insignificant, is energy, invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1860 - 358 pages
...was very strong indeed upon the certain success of a firm purpose. " The longer I live," said lie, " the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, is energy — invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality... | |
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The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality... 
