Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

Success is the residue of planning.
- Topic: Planning, Success
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.
it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.
The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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 the 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. This is to have succeeded!
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
