Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to read more

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by
the ideal of service.

It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by
the ideal of service.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by read more

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

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

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

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.]