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Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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.]
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted read more
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success read more
Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? •Jean Cocteau Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. •Lily Tomlin The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. •Nancy Astor For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. •Rita Mae Brown Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. •Mark Twain The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. •J.N. Fadenburg Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly. •Cecil B. Demille I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. •Abraham Lincoln The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. •Groucho Marx Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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.
Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body read more
Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.