the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to…

“The maxim, by which we commonly conduct ourselves in our reasonings, is, that the objects, of which we have no experience, resemble those, of…

— Christopher Hitchens

Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness.

— John Harricharan

We have to accept that failure is a necessary part of success.

— Alfredo Di Stefano

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

— Og Mandino

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them

— Zig Ziglar

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

— James Fallows

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

— John Ruskin

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own…

— Ben Shahn

“Do it, my fellow Americans! Do it for every adolescent anomic skank genius cloistered in his room, getting cranked, rabidly humping his sampler as…

— Mark Leyner

Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs…

— Anton Chekhov

Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.

— Albert Einstein

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

— Ben Jonson

I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence…

— Jay Gould

Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.

— George Crabbe

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

— William Hazlitt