All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on
your way down.

Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on
your way down.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
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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.

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?

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?

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a read more

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.