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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of read more
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which read more
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the
bricks that others throw at him read more
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the
bricks that others throw at him or her.
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 first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you read more
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
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.
There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to read more
There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
The road to success is always under construction.
The road to success is always under construction.