Success and Failure

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act and, in acting, to live.

Omar Bradley, in Success and Failure

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

Ernest Bramah, in Success and Failure

I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.

Werner von Braun, in Success and Failure

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Werner von Braun, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Leo Rosten, in Success and Failure

Imbesi's Law with Freeman's Extension: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty; but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The race may not be always to the swift, or the battle to the strong, but that's sure the way to bet.

Damon Runyon, in Success and Failure

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.

Ed Rollins, in Success and Failure

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.

Will Rogers, in Success and Failure

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

La Rochefoucauld, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

Don't think, just do.

Reiko Horton, in Success and Failure

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John Keats, in Success and Failure

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened, it won't last.

Jules Renard, in Success and Failure