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A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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.
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.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius,--
We'll deserve it.
'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius,--
We'll deserve it.
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
