The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.".

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.".

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn read more

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you read more

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

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.

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.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard read more

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.