Grain by grain a loaf, stone by stone a palace.
Proverbs have no individual author. They passed orally through generations and were only written down from the nineteenth century onward, when collectors of folk literature began systematically recording what until then had been carried in memory. The sayings gathered here come from Croatian oral tradition and often exist in several variants depending on the region.
About this theme: Success
Success is the theme where the difference between a quotation and a slogan is easiest to see. A slogan promises an outcome; a quote worth keeping usually names a cost. That is why the most durable lines about success are so often about failure — the number of attempts, the years without result, what had to be given up along the way.
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- Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.— Lao Tzu
- Fortune favors the bold.— Latin Proverb
- Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.— Albert Einstein
- Well done is better than well said.— Benjamin Franklin
- I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took any excuse.— Florence Nightingale