Success and Failure

If at first you don't succeed, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no sense in being a damned fool about it.

W. C. Fields, in Success and Failure

Whether you think that you can or that you can't, you are usually right.

Henry Ford, in Success and Failure

To accomplish great things, you must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.

Anatole France, in Success and Failure

If you're strong enough, there are no precedents.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Success and Failure

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked throughout the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, in Success and Failure

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.

Marian Erickson, in Success and Failure

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

No man can get through me but through my act.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Ralph Ellison, in Success and Failure

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein, in Success and Failure

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- unless it is an enemy.

Albert Einstein, in Altruism and Cynicism and 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

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Success and Failure

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

Edward Gibbon, in Success and Failure

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Jean Giraudoux, in Success and Failure