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Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted
The best revenge is massive success.
The best revenge is massive success.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the read more
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body read more
Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success read more
Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? •Jean Cocteau Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. •Lily Tomlin The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. •Nancy Astor For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. •Rita Mae Brown Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. •Mark Twain The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. •J.N. Fadenburg Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly. •Cecil B. Demille I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. •Abraham Lincoln The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. •Groucho Marx Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
 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. 
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into read more
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.