"In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed." ― Charles de Montesquieu Topic(s): Success More From Charles de Montesquieu "Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed." "The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions." "The less men think, the more they talk." More In Success "There’s no right or wrong, success or failure."― Miley Cyrus "Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America."― Ernest Istook "No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."― Charles Kendall Adams