The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art read more

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less read more

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, read more

Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, God be thanked! I do not.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

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

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

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.