Success and Failure

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 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

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

Marian Erickson, in Success and Failure

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

Albert Einstein, in Success and Failure

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

Ralph Ellison, in Success and Failure

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous.

Peter Benchley, in Success and Failure

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Ludwig van Beethoven, in Success and Failure

Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?

Alan James Bean, in Success and Failure

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Ben Bayol, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.

Les Barker, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

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

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

Wallace Arnold, in Success and Failure

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

Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.

Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.

James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan, in Success and Failure