Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body read more

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

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.

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.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first read more

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

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.

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 foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.