Success and Failure

All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Daniel Boorstin, in Success and Failure

A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.

Arthur Block, in Success and Failure

The majority of the time, the thing that gets in the way of success... is your brain.

Chris Blake, in Success and Failure

A winner never quits -- a quitter never wins.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A ship doesn't travel far in a calm sea.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A day for firm decisions! Or is it?

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Success and Failure

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Woodrow Wilson, in Success and Failure

Just because you've been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn't mean you've been doing it right.

John Winsett, (said at a training seminar), in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Winchell, in Success and Failure

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

Walter Winchell, in Success and Failure

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

Weisert, 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

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Mae West, in Success and Failure

Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.

Peter Wastholm, in Success and Failure

Usually, if you're calling any shots at all, you're not eating worms.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (the Susie Derkins character), in Success and Failure