Success and Failure

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton, in Success and Failure

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.

Erik Nupponen, in Success and Failure

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Your ass is grass and I am the lawnmower.

J. A. O'Fihely, in Success and Failure

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain, in Success and Failure

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

William Van Horne, in Success and Failure

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda, in Success and Failure

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

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

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

Jeremy Preston Johnson, 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

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce, in Success and Failure

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

Alan Kay, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

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

Danny Kaye, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John Keats, in 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

Modesty is the opium of the mediocre.

Marty Milner, in Success and Failure

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.

Wilson Mizner, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue