If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, read more

If 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.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to read more

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be

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.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is read more

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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.

Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.

Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.

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.

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.

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.