 | Birds - 1890 - 208 pages
...devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely." Longfellow has defined the talent of success as nothing more than doing what you can do well, without a thought of fame. And so it is with every calling in life, if a person would succeed, he must devote the whole stream... | |
 | Charles Northend - Maxims - 1890 - 224 pages
...unfulfilled. Better for them, and for the world in their example, had they known how to wait! Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. If it come at all, it will come because... | |
 | Edward Barrett Warman - Delsarte system - 1891 - 442 pages
...Three-fold Love,— God, Neighbor, Self. FIG. 136. Vitality vs. Mentality. FIG. 137. Mentality vs. Vitality The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. LONGFELLOW. DELSARTEAN TRINITIES; OR, MAN... | |
 | First Unitarian Church of Oakland, Calif. Ladies - Quotations, English - 1891 - 96 pages
...No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great. — Tennyson. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do. — Longfellow, That best portion of a good man's life; His little,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...sacrifices every scruple, is applauded by all — success being the standard to judge by. TALENT OF. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. Longfellow. VIRTUE WITHOUT. Virtue without... | |
 | Caroline Louisa Hunt - Quotations - 1891 - 118 pages
...EMERSON. There is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent and sincere earnestness. CHARLES DICKENS. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. LONGFELLOW. He who seduously attends, pointedly... | |
 | Bible - 1892 - 812 pages
...Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God." — Hebrew Chronicles. " The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame." — Longfellow. " I confess," says a thoughtful... | |
 | Alfred Thomas Story - Artists - 1892 - 306 pages
...are : " Better for them and for the world in their example had they known how to wait. Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can well, and doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame. If it come at all, it will come because... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Conduct of life - 1893 - 464 pages
...Infidelity a Foe to Success 435 CV1I1. The Bible in Business 439 WHAT IS SUCCESS? LONGFELLOW said, " The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, without a thought of fame." Osborne, writing for the Merchant's Magazine, said, " Success in life consists in the proper and harmonious... | |
 | Erastus Wiman - Agriculture - 1893 - 398 pages
..."To succeed, one must sometimes be very bold and sometimes very prudent."—Napoleon. " The i,i,c-"t of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, without a thought of fame."—Longfellow. Liberality of a Scotchman. It was a risky thing in the largest Irish city in the... | |
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Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well ; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. 
