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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we read more
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world read more
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted read more
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about read more
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
