Charles Kendall Adams quotes
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“No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”
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“No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.”
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“In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.”
-- Charles Kendall AdamsSource : Charles Kendall Adams (1892). “Christopher Columbus: His Life and His Work”, New York : Dodd, Mead
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“Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.”
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“Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension”
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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Source : Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.
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“Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.”
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Source : Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
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