david strasser: success

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Post #1134

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
—Charles Buxton

Friday, November 02, 2012

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't as all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success.
—Thomas J. Watson

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Post #1094

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
—Erma Bombeck

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Post #1088

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
—Gen. George S. Patton

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Post #1076

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
—John Ruskin

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Post #1073

Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
—Paul Meyer

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Post #1069

Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.
—Vince Lombardi

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Post #1047

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, June 25, 2012

Post #987

Perseverance, n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
—Ambrose Bierce

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Post #949

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.
—Walter Chrysler

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Post #932

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Post #922

My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.
—Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Friday, March 23, 2012

Post #900

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
—Sir Winston Churchill

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Post #898

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who your are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
—George Allen

Thursday, March 08, 2012

Post #885

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
—Samuel Johnson

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Post #841

The road is better than the inn.
—Miguel de Cervantes

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Post #835

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
—Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Friday, January 13, 2012

Post #830

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is a progress, and working together is a success.
—Henry Ford

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Post #807

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
—Charles M. Schwab

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Post #794

What is success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty and find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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