The way to secure success, is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it; the surest hindrance to it is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the discernment of the public.


"On the Qualifications Necessary for Success". - The Plain Speaker (1826)

William Hazlitt Quotes

The way to secure success, is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it; the surest hindrance to it is to have too high a standard...

The way to secure success, is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it; the surest hindrance to it is to have too high a standard...

The way to secure success, is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it; the surest hindrance to it is to have too high a standard...

The way to secure success, is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it; the surest hindrance to it is to have too high a standard...