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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and read more
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by
the ideal of service.
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by
the ideal of service.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the
swift, nor the battle to read more
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the
swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the
wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to
men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts
Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts
Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance read more
Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything you do.
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs read more
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs,
than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his
house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law,
people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort
to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the
prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey
into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or
can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious
songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept:
the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and
tens and fifties to his door.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you read more
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.