Tìm kiếm trích dẫn của người nổi tiếng (tiếng Anh)

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.

Joseph Marshall Wade
British-American publisher (1832-1905)

Joseph Marshall Wade was an important British-American ornithological and textile publisher in the late 19th century.
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Joseph Barbera
American animator and cartoonist (1911–2006)

Joseph Roland Barbera was an American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist who co-founded the animation studio and production company Hanna-Barbera.
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I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot
British bishop and scholar of early Christianity

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, known as J. B. Lightfoot, was an English theologian and Bishop of Durham.
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The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot
British bishop and scholar of early Christianity

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, known as J. B. Lightfoot, was an English theologian and Bishop of Durham.
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We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot
British bishop and scholar of early Christianity

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, known as J. B. Lightfoot, was an English theologian and Bishop of Durham.
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Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying. We must never give up, regardless of temptations, frustrations, disappointments, or discouragements.

Joseph B. Wirthlin
Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Joseph Bitner Wirthlin was an American businessman, religious leader and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was sustained to the Twelve on October 4, 1986, and ordained an apostle on October 9, 1986, by Thomas S. Monson. He became an apostle following the death of church president Spencer W. Kimball. As a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, Wirthlin was accepted by the church membership as a prophet, seer, and revelator.
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God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Jonathan Sacks
British rabbi

Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks was an English Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and author. Sacks served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. As the spiritual head of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue body in the United Kingdom, he was the Chief Rabbi of those Orthodox synagogues but was not recognized as the religious authority for the Haredi Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations or for the progressive movements such as Masorti, Reform, and Liberal Judaism. As Chief Rabbi, he formally carried the title of Av Beit Din (head) of the London Beth Din. At the time of his death, he was the Emeritus Chief Rabbi.
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Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Jonathan Raban
British writer

Jonathan Raban is a British travel writer, critic, and novelist. He has received several awards, such as the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and a 1997 Washington State Governor's Writer's Award. Since 1990 he has lived with his daughter in Seattle. In 2003, his novel Waxwings was long listed for the Man Booker Prize.
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I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Jonathan Kozol
American activist and educator

Jonathan Kozol is an American writer, progressive activist, and educator, best known for his books on public education in the United States.
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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

Jonathan Kozol
American activist and educator

Jonathan Kozol is an American writer, progressive activist, and educator, best known for his books on public education in the United States.
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