Success

"Médiocre et rampant, et l'on arrive à tout."

"That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit."

"Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not."

"We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers; Body and brain we were sound as they, But the prizes were not ours."

"They never fail who die In a great cause."

"Be it jewel or toy, Not the prize gives the joy, But the striving to win the prize."

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

"Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on."

"Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord's?"

"One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going."

"Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up."

"Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, ne'er dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing."

"Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed."

"Rien ne réussit comme le succès."

"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong."

"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."

"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door."

"Self-trust is the first secret of success."

"If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."

"One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success."

"Born for success, he seemed With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes."

"If you wish in this world to advance, Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or trust me, you haven't a chance."

"Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance."

"Die That ist alles, nichts der Ruhm."

"Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliert * * * aber er gewinnt auch."

"Ha sempre dimostrato l'esperienza, e lo dimostra la ragione, che mai succedono bene le cose che dipendono da molti."

"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."

"Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree."

"Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci."

"Quid te exempta juvat spinis e pluribus una."

"Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain; "Think nothing gain'd," he cries, "till naught remain.""

"When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billows past?"

"Il n'y a au monde que deux manières de s'élever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbécilitè des autres."

"Rien ne sert de courir: il faut partir à point."

"Facile est ventis dare vela secundis, Fecundumque solum varias agitare per artes, Auroque atque ebori decus addere, cum rudis ipsa Materies niteat."

"Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superæ sibi vindicant potestates."

"In tauros Libyci ruunt leones; Non sunt papilionibus molesti."

"The virtue lies In the struggle, not the prize."

"J'ai toujours vu que, pour réussir dans le monde, il fallait avoir l'air fou et être sage."

"Le succès de la plupart des choses dépend de savoir combien il faut de temps pour réussir."

"How far high failure overleaps the bound Of low successes."

"Aut non tentaris, aut perfice."

"Acer et ad palmæ per se cursurus honores, Si tamen horteris fortius ibit equus."

"A man can't be hid. He may be a pedler in the mountains, but the world will find him out to make him a king of finance. He may be carrying cabbages from Long Island, when the world will demand that he shall run the railways of a continent. He may be a groceryman on the canal, when the country shall come to him and put him in his career of usefulness. So that there comes a time finally when all the green barrels of petroleum in the land suggest but two names and one great company."

"He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound."

"Successus improborum plures allicit."

"Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est."

"It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of the kind which human ingenuity may not, by proper application resolve."

"The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won."

"Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?"