"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 "Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type."― Famke Janssen "However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."― Wayne Gretzky