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1– Joseph Addison, 3 Elements of Happiness
2– Douglas Bader, Handicaps
3– Charles A. Beard, Man's Purpose
4– John Bogle , Investing
5– Bertolt Brecht, Initiative
6– Robert Browning , Making the Effort
7– Giordano Bruno, Conviction
8– Edmund Burke, Doing the Right Thing
9– Albert Camus, Hope
10– Thomas Carlyle, Making a Difference
11– Dale Carnegie, Showing Appreciation
12– Winston Churchill, Courage and Listening
13– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Suspicions
14– Arthur Compton, Advantages of Modern Life
15– Kevin Costner, Staying True to Yourself
16– Bette Davis, Creativity and Money
17– Jefferson Davis, Subservience and Pride
18– Charles Dickens, The Ends Don't Justify the Means
19– George Eliot, Regrets
20– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Actions Speak Louder Than Words
21– Epictetus, Becoming Your Best Self
22– Malcolm Forbes, Character
23– Harrison Ford, Success and Individuality
24– Benjamin Franklin, Self-esteem vs. Popularity
25– Thomas Fuller, Hope
26– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Happiness and Harmony
27– Romain Gary, Humor and Dignity
28– Douglas Haig, No Surrender
29– Ernest Hemingway, Pressure
30– Victor Hugo, Obscure Struggles
31– Zora Neale Hurston, Making the Effort
32– Washington Irving, Women and Adversity
33– William James, Attitude
34– Thomas Jefferson, Style Vs Principle
35– Helen Keller, Changing the World
36– Robert F. Kennedy, Effort
37– Martin Luther King, Jr., Pride in Work
38– Charles Kingsley, Value of Work
39– Abraham Lincoln, Daily Life
40– Vince Lombardi, Resilience
41– George Leigh Mallory, Challenge
42– Abraham Maslow, Fulfillment Through Work
43– David McKay, Challenge
44– Friedrich Nietzsche, Self-Respect
45– Louis Nizer, Religion
46– Thomas Paine, Profiting from Adversity
47– Louis Pasteur, Ideals
48– Alexander Pope, Admitting Mistakes
49– Christopher Reeve, Dreams
50– Eleanor Roosevelt, Confronting Fear
51– Franklin D. Roosevelt, Happiness and Achievement
52– Theodore Roosevelt, No Excuses
53– E. Merrill Root, Work and Happiness
54– John Ruskin, Learning from Others
55– George Santayana, Lovers and Philosophers
56– William Shakespeare, Be Yourself
57– George Bernard Shaw, Creating Opportunity
58– John Steinbeck, Leadership
59– Robert Louis Stevenson, Potential
60– Thomas Szasz, Finding Yourself
61– Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?
62– Anthony Trollope, Against the Odds
63– Wang Yang-ming, Mistakes
64– Booker T. Washington, Rising Above Hatred
65– Hugh White, Focus on the Future
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Against the Odds
Anthony Trollope |
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“I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.” |
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Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), English Novelist |
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Like Charles Dickens, Jane Gaskell, William Thackeray, and Jane Austen, Trollope is part of the golden age of Victorian literature. A prolific author, Trollope’s most famous writing is two series of novels, the Barchester Chronicles (1857-1867), based on a fictional cathedral community, and the more political Palliser series (1864-1880). Trollope is also known for his faithful recording of the daily drama of life, and for memorable characters such as the Duke of Omnium, Phineas Finn, and Mrs. Proudie. He was commercially successful during most of his life, but his reputation sank after his death, partly due to his workmanlike attitude towards writing: he wrote a fixed number of words each morning, 1,000, according to a fixed schedule, and he wrote for money. At a time when “trade” was regarded as far less noble than “art”, Trollope was regarded as something of a hack. But later readers have rediscovered the quality of his writing. Physically large and solid, Trollope was a boisterous, argumentative man – a contradiction to the detailed, workmanlike style of his novels.
The fourth son of an unsuccessful lawyer, Trollope attended a number of schools, including Harrow. After the family went bankrupt in 1834, his mother, Frances, began writing novels to support the family. Also in 1834, Trollope found work as a clerk in the Post Office, where he would be employed in various capacities until 1867, by which time his writing had made him financially independent. In 1868 he made an unsuccessful run for Parliament. He continued writing until his death in 1882; he was survived by a wife and two sons.
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