The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it read more

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, read more

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to
themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
[Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non
obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi
vindicant potestates.]

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the read more

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

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 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.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the read more

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

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.

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.