A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor ye ...

The righteous shall inherit the land.

They go from strength to strength.

This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.