Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go

Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go

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

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

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

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.

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.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a read more

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

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 consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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.