Always aspire to be greater than what you are because you never know what you will discover about yourself on the way to the top.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

Some women are vain, swallowed by the obsession of their own beauty, because they fear that is all they have to offer. And sadly, this obsession makes it so.

There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals?
Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual.

Doing what successful people were able to do is great! But being able to do what successful people weren’t able to do is the challenge !

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction