If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y read more

If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

The lesser you hear that people say about you, the more you succeed.

The lesser you hear that people say about you, the more you succeed.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the
swift, nor the battle to read more

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the
swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the
wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to
men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

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.

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.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index read more

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

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.