One of the most important keys to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, read more

One of the most important keys to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you dont feel like doing it.

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to read more

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.".

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.".

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

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.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough read more

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?