One thing is forever good;
That one thing is Success.
Born for success, he seemed
With grace to win, with heart to hold,
With shining gifts that took all eyes.
If you wish in this world to advance,
Your merits you're bound to enhance;
You must stir it and stump it,
And blow your own trumpet,
Or trust me, you haven't a chance.
Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best
there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance.
Die That ist alles, nichts der Ruhm.
The deed is everything, the glory naught.
Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliert * * * aber er gewinnt auch.
Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, * * * but he also wins.
Somebody said it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
Ha sempre dimostrato l'esperienza, e lo dimostra la ragione, che mai succedono bene le cose che dipendono da molti.
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky
Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci.
He has carried every point, who has mingled the useful with the agreeable.
Quid te exempta juvat spinis e pluribus una.
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed?
Peace courts his hand, but spreads her champs in vain;
"Think nothing gain'd," he cries, "till naught remain."
When the shore is won at last,
Who will count the billows past?
Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.
There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
Rien ne sert de courir: il faut partir a point.
To win a race, the swiftness of a dart
Availeth not without a timely start.
La Fontaine—Fables. VI. 10.
Facile est ventis dare vela secundis,
Fecundumque solum varias agitare per artes,
Auroque atque ebori decus addere, cum rudis ipsa
Materies niteat.
It is easy to spread the sails to propitious
winds, and to cultivate in different ways a
rich soil, and to give lustre to gold and ivory,
when the very raw material itself shines.
Mantlius—Astronomica. 3.
Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superæ sibi vindicant potestates.
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.
In tauros Libyci ruunt leones;
Non sunt papilionibus molesti.
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 20 | text = The virtue lies
In the struggle, not the prize. </poem>
| author = Monckton Milnes
| cog = (Lord Houghton)
| work = The World to the Soul.
| place = 9. 1.
| seealso = (See also Goethe)
