The basic Aphor list and a sublist Aphor Charles Scamahorn 

1. To succeed in achieving your goals means accomplishing some critical portion of the tasks needed to achieve your goals.

2. Just thinking about goals and never doing anything toward their successful completion will eventually grow into depression and despair.

3. To leave the world a better place than we found it is a worthy goal, but it requires some thought about what a better world would be.

4. In a Darwinian sense, you have succeeded when your offspring have offspring, but another child doesn’t make a better world when there are too many people already.

5. Many of your life’s tasks are worth completing, even if you do a poor job.

6. Many things you can do are not worth finishing, even if you do them exquisitely well.

7. Are you successful if you own tons of gold buried in the ground?

8. If everything you do is perfectly successful, it is time to try a few more complex things.

9. Success creates joy in ordinary people, but miserable failure doesn’t destroy the enthusiasm in martyrs.

10. The secret of success is choosing goals you can reach, preparing the path needed for getting there, and then stepping forward with enthusiasm.

11. Great successes are founded on the acceptance and adaptation to many failures.

12. You may keep others away from the success you don’t want them to have by showing them the dangers of having it.

13. Success is achieving a goal, following the effort of getting there.

14. Success is the result of completed actions.

15. A sure way to fail is to shun success when it’s readily available.

16. A specific route to success is to devise a need that only you can fulfill.

17. You can cultivate a successful personality adaptation by making increasingly difficult promises to yourself and then keeping them.

18. Financial success helps wise people to be kind and foolish people to be cruel.

19. The most accessible road to personal success is found in being kind to others.