Success and Failure

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act and, in acting, to live.

Omar Bradley, in Success and Failure

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure

It's not over until it's over.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure

99% of the game is half mental.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure

I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one.

James G. Bennet, in Success and Failure

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous.

Peter Benchley, in Success and Failure

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Ludwig van Beethoven, in Success and Failure

Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?

Alan James Bean, in Success and Failure

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Ben Bayol, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Helen Keller, in Success and Failure

A .44 magnum beats four aces.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace

People who never acheive happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep,they are thinking about what to complain about tommorrow.

Adam Zimbler, in Success and Failure

A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Daniel Boorstin, in Success and Failure

Where there is no vision, there is no achievment.

Chris Y., in Success and Failure

Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Winchell, in Success and Failure

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde, in Success and Failure

Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.

Tennessee Williams, in Success and Failure

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Woodrow Wilson, in Success and Failure