Society and the World

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.

A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

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. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed there's so little competition.

Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed there's so little competition.

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

I don't try to jump over 7 foot bars, I look around for 1 foot bars that I can step over.

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.