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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you
Success demands singleness of purpose.
Success demands singleness of purpose.
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]
Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]