Nothing will work unless you do.
Where these words come from
- 45% sureLots of sources credit Maya Angelou with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Widely attributed to Angelou across secondary sources; no primary work citation located in this pass -- aggregator discovery, held at likely.
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Oscar WildeNot all who wander are lost.
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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.Ralph Waldo EmersonAlways be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
Oscar WildeNot all who wander are lost.J.R.R. Tolkien'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.Oscar WildeWe will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.Ralph Waldo EmersonThe imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.Ralph Waldo EmersonAlways be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.Judy Garland