It has never been, and never will be, easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
We only do well the things we like doing.
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
I'd rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice 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.
