Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come read more

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, read more

If 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.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art read more

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told,
A truth still sacred, and believed of old,
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Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told,
A truth still sacred, and believed of old,
That no success attends on spears and swords
Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord's?

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

There's no abiding success without commitment.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.