Success and Failure

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

Earl Wilson, in Success and Failure

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

Tennessee Williams, in Success and Failure

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde, in Success and Failure

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.

Bert Whitney, in Success and Failure

Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.

Peter Wastholm, in Success and Failure

All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagner, in Success and Failure

A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal, in Success and Failure

They are able because they think they are able.

Vergil, in Success and Failure

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

John Ousterhout, in Success and Failure

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Mae West, in Success and Failure

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

Weisert, 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

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

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

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert Humphrey, in Success and Failure

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda, in Success and Failure