Success and Failure

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John Keats, in Success and Failure

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Danny Kaye, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce, in Success and Failure

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones, in Success and Failure

Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.

Jeremy Preston Johnson, in Success and Failure

If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.

Pope John Paul I, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

I want what I want when I want it!

Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Don't think, just do.

Reiko Horton, in Success and Failure

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Elbert Hubbard, in Success and Failure

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda, in Success and Failure

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo, in Success and Failure and War and Peace

The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure