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'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.

Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit: His high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers; Body and brain we were sound as they, But the prizes were not ours.

They never fail who die In a great cause.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed, but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark.

Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.

Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord's?

One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.

Th' aspirer, once attain'd unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.

Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, ne'er dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing.

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.