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Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
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.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the read more
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the read more
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.
Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
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.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less read more
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.