If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.
Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.
I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.
If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.
I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?
I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.
All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.
I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.
If I persist long enough I will win.
I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.
Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.
There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.
Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
Failure is... the highway to success.
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