Success

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate

This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on

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

If you think you can do it, you can.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.