If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Success is failure turned inside out.

The only journey is the one within.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, ''Certainly I can!'' -- and get busy and find out how to do it.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

Success isn't necessarily permanent -- but neither is failure.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.