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Your definition of success and happiness is very important when it's time for the spotlight or limelight to shine on read more
Your definition of success and happiness is very important when it's time for the spotlight or limelight to shine on you.
One thing is forever good;
That one thing is Success.
One thing is forever good;
That one thing is Success.
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.
Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law.
Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
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?
You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need read more
You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.
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.