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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.
If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y read more
If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, read more
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to
themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
[Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non
obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi
vindicant potestates.]
Success is dependent on effort.
Success is dependent on effort.
'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.
One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is
going.
One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is
going.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]
Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]
Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn read more
Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
