Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, read more

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to
themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
[Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non
obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi
vindicant potestates.]

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

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.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

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?

Success is in the details.

Success is in the details.

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.