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Quotes by Charles Buxton

Charles Buxton

“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.”

“In life, as in chess, forethought wins.”

“If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.”

“The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.”

“Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.”

“Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.”

“You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”

“The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon”

“To make pleasures pleasant shorten them”

“Silence is sometimes the answer”

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

To make pleasure pleasant shorten.

Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

In life as in chess forethought wins.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”