"I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse." ― Florence Nightingale Topic(s): Success More From Florence Nightingale "Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe." "The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality." More In Success "The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods."― John Maynard Keynes "Which is – you know, like check it out, I’m pretty young, I’m only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it’s exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?"― Elizabeth Gilbert "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."― Albert Einstein