I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to read more

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

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.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted read more

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index read more

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.

Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.

That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, read more

That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,
His hundreds soon hit:
His high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, read more

Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, God be thanked! I do not.