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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?
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 at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about read more
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
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.
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by
the ideal of service.
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by
the ideal of service.
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.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
