Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.

Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.

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.

I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money; it’s the talent and the passion that count in read more

I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money; it’s the talent and the passion that count in success.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

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.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come read more

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

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.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.