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Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.
Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law.
The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no top..
The lesser you hear that people say about you, the more you succeed.
Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly.
Success is when reality exceeds expectations.
There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you.
The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea.
Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.
Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.