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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.]
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Born for success, he seemed
With grace to win, with heart to hold,
With shining gifts that read more
Born for success, he seemed
With grace to win, with heart to hold,
With shining gifts that took all eyes.
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.
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.
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.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.
Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.
