Success and Failure

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

Sacha Guitry, in Success and Failure

When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.

Albert Guinon, in Success and Failure

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Nick Gorski, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

If you do what you've always done, you'll be what you've always been.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

If you see a turtle on a fence post, he has had some help.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin, in Success and Failure

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Success and Failure

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Jean Giraudoux, in Success and Failure

The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon, in Success and Failure

Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.

Jacob Ghitis, in Success and Failure

Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George, in Success and Failure

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

J. Paul Getty, in Success and Failure and Wealth and Poverty

Do not believe in miracles -- rely on them.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Everything you do or say is public relations.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Ducharm's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Even a blind pig in a blizzard finds an acorn once in a while.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Every solution breeds new problems.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

I wish I were what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.

Unknown, in Success and Failure