Success and Failure

When one is trying to do something beyond one's known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Henry Miller, in Success and Failure

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

Henry Louis Mencken, in Success and Failure

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville, in Success and Failure

I must catch up with the others, for I am their leader.

Tim McGowan, in Success and Failure

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

Abraham Maslow, in Success and Failure

Never try to out-stubborn a cat.

Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure

No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, in 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

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

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

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

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

David Lloyd George, in Success and Failure

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

Charles Brower, in Success and Failure

Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.

Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and whatever you hit, call it the target.

Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure