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.
Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.
(Offensive Coach) Paul Hackett realized that Joe Montana knew more about the offenseΒ than he did, but when the meeting was over, Paul saw that Joe had taken three pages of notes. He documented exactly how Paul wanted to run the play, as well as all of the basics of it and its details. That's what a professional does.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
I've made peace with the fact that the World Cup will not define me. Yes, it would be nice to add that to what's been a very enjoyable career, but I know it won't define me as a person or cricketer.
I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.
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