Quotes about "Success & Achievement"

I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand. ”

My goal is to put France back on its feet. I have to put this country back on its feet. ”

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect. ”

France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view. ”

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. ”

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. ”

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. ”

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love. ”

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect. ”

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances. ”