Success and Failure

Nothing very good or very bad lasts very long.

D. W. Luthanen, in Success and Failure

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur, in Success and Failure

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

Mao Tse-Tung, in Success and Failure

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

William Markiewicz, Extracts of Existence, in Success and Failure

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

Abraham Maslow, 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

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

Tim McGowan, in Success and Failure

If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.

Damien Cannon, 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

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

Robert Collier, in Success and Failure

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Edwin Louis Cole, in Success and Failure

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Appius Claudius, in Success and Failure

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Paul Claudel, in Success and Failure

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

René Char, in Success and Failure