It is not enough to aim, you must hit. Italian Proverb
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. Eliot, George
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. Johnson, Samuel
Many people have the ambition to succeed in their work; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves. Stevenson, John
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. Backus, Jim
Men are so constituted that everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not. Goethe
Men will never establish any equality with which they can be contented. Whatever efforts a people may make, they will never succeed in reducing all the conditions of society to a perfect level. de Tocqueville, Alexis
Moderation is a fatal thing nothing succeeds like excess. Wilde, Oscar
Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source. Syrus, Publilius
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Nature gave man two ends one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. Kirkpatrick, George R.
