Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow – after you have done your best to achieve success today. 839
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. 623
The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. 623
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame. 580
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. 656
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. 1.93K
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. 673
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back? 2.35K
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. 2.39K
Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. 629
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. 655
Central banks don’t have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. 735
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. 615
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you. 642
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. 1.85K
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. 523
