Success and Failure

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald, in 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

With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.

Ransom K. Ferm, 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

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley-Pitt, in Success and Failure

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

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

Albert Einstein, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure

You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.

Wallace Arnold, in Success and Failure

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier, in Success and Failure

Become addicted to constant and neverending self-improvement.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Success and Failure

"It can't happen here" is number 1 on the list of famous last words.

David Crosby, in Success and Failure

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp, in Success and Failure

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.

Stephen R. Covey, Principle-Centered Leadership, in Success and Failure

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

Norman Cousins, in Success and Failure

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.

Confucius, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Appius Claudius, in Success and Failure