david strasser: success

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Friday, September 09, 2011

Post #706

Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
—Confucius

Thursday, September 01, 2011

Post #698

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
—Christopher Morley

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Post #687

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
—John P Marquand

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Post #648

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
—Florence Nightingale

Saturday, July 02, 2011

Post #637

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success.
—Henry Ford

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Post #627

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.
—John Hays Hammond

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Post #599

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.
—Booker T. Washington

Monday, March 28, 2011

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
—Benjamin Franklin

Monday, February 14, 2011

Post #500

Do what you love, the money will follow.
—Marsha Sinetar

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Post #468

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
—Martha Grimes

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Post #454

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
—Henrik Ibsen

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Post #453

Find a need and fill it.
—Ruth Stafford Peale

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Post #436

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.
—Dottie Walters

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Post #419

Survival is triumph enough.
—Harry Crews

Saturday, November 06, 2010

Post #400

Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right.
—Henry Ford

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Post #376

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
—Benjamin Franklin

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Post #306

For he seems to me to be the greatest man, who rises to a high position by his own merit, and not one who climbs up by the injury and disaster of another.
—Cicero

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Post #295

Failure is success if we learn from it.
—Malcolm Forbes

Sunday, June 06, 2010

Post #247

Nothing recedes like success.
—Walter Winchell

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Post #244

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
—Muhammad Ali

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