Thought for Today

"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

~~~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thought for Today

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

~~~~~ Samuel Smiles

Thought for Today

"I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something."

~~~~~ Shelby Foote

Thought for Today

"If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier."

~~~~~ Leo Szilard

Thought for Today

"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."

~~~~~ George Burns

Thought for Today

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody."

~~~~~ Herbert Bayard Swope

Thought for Today

"To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success."

~~~~~ Henry J. Heinz

Thought for Today

"If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know."

~~~~~ Thomas Wolfe

Thought for Today

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

~~~~~ Truman Capote

Thought for Today

"Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work."

~~~~~ William Feather

Thought for Today

"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."

~~~~~ Luc de Clapiers

Thought for Today

"Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow."

~~~~~ William Pollard

Thought for Today

"One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself."

~~~~~ James E. Casey

Thought for Today

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

~~~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thought for Today

"If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier."

~~~~~ Leo Szilard

Thought for Today

"There is little success where there is little laughter."

~~~~~ Andrew Carnegie

Thought for Today

"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."

~~~~~ Samuel Johnson

Thought for Today

"We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president."

~~~~~ Dave Ramsey

Thought for Today

"Success demands singleness of purpose."

~~~~~ Vince Lombardi

Thought for Today

"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."

~~~~~ Johann Sebastian Bach