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.
The elements of good trading are: 1, cutting losses. 2, cutting losses. And 3, cutting losses. If you can follow these three rules, you may have a chance.
You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.
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