The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Many people have the ambition to succeed in their work; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and only eating the top half of each one.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
There is nothing more difficult to carry out and more doubtful of success than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who prosper by the old order.
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way, they remember you.
Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.