In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Interpretation
Success is largely about understanding the time and effort required to achieve it.
This quote by Montesquieu highlights the importance of time management and awareness in the pursuit of success. It suggests that knowing the duration and the process required for a task is crucial for achieving success, emphasizing that perseverance and informed planning are integral to reaching one's goals.
In practice
In a motivational speech to a group of students about the importance of time management.
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.
We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.
Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
Don't be misled into believing that somehow the world owes you a living. The boy who believes that his parents, or the government, or any one else owes him his livelihood and that he can collect it without labor will wake up one day and find himself working for another boy who did not have that belief and, therefore, earned the right to have others work for him.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
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