The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it read more

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

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?

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.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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.

You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need read more

You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

We are the doubles of those whose way
Was festal with fruits and flowers;
Body and brain read more

We are the doubles of those whose way
Was festal with fruits and flowers;
Body and brain we were sound as they,
But the prizes were not ours.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.