If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and
there abide, the huge world will come round read more

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and
there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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.

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?

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You read more

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

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.

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.]