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 endure the betrayal of false friends To appreciate beauty To 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 That is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
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Natalie Goldberg
Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with...
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Veronica Roth
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Herman Melville
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
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Winston S. Churchill
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
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Robert Greene
More Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, and you shall be loved.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
