Success Quotes ( 120 - 130 of 178 )
Born for success, he seemed
With grace to win, with heart to hold,
With shining gifts that read more
Born for success, he seemed
With grace to win, with heart to hold,
With shining gifts that took all eyes.
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.
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.
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.
Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top,
Cuts off those means by which himself got up.
Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top,
Cuts off those means by which himself got up.
Three men, together riding,
Can win new worlds at their will;
Resolute, ne'er dividing,
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Three men, together riding,
Can win new worlds at their will;
Resolute, ne'er dividing,
Lead, and be victors still.
Three can laugh and doom a king,
Three can make the planets sing.
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, read more
Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, God be thanked! I do not.
We are the doubles of those whose way
Was festal with fruits and flowers;
Body and brain read more
We are the doubles of those whose way
Was festal with fruits and flowers;
Body and brain we were sound as they,
But the prizes were not ours.
They never fail who die
In a great cause.
They never fail who die
In a great cause.
