Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into read more

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

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.]

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 dependent on effort.

Success is dependent on effort.

These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed,
but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark.

These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed,
but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.