Showing posts with label luck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label luck. Show all posts

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Post #3138

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.
—Mark Twain

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Post #2677

Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
—Plautus

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Post #2544

Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?
—Mayer Rothschild

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Post #1644

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
—Channing Pollock

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Post #1369

A good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of.
—Joseph Addison

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Post #1199

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than it is to keep it.
—Publilius Syrus

Monday, November 05, 2012

Post #1103

One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with your luck.
—Carl Zuckmayer

Friday, August 17, 2012

Post #1036

We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.
—Publilius Syrus

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Post #1014

The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run.
—Marquis de Racan

Friday, February 10, 2012

Post #858

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
—R.E. Shay

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Post #742

When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.
—Armand Hammer

Sunday, July 03, 2011

Post #638

Chance favors the prepared mind.
—Louis Pasteur

Friday, June 24, 2011

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Post #494

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Post #170

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.  In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.
—Ovid

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Post #146

Luck is the residue of design.
—Branch Rickey

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Post #69

There is no luck except where there is discipline.
—Irish Proverb

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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