Success and Failure

A .44 magnum beats four aces.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A bend in the road is not the end of the road -- unless you fail to make the turn.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

People who never acheive happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep,they are thinking about what to complain about tommorrow.

Adam Zimbler, in Success and Failure

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

John Ousterhout, in Success and Failure

Where there is no vision, there is no achievment.

Chris Y., in Success and Failure

To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.

Erik Nupponen, in Success and Failure

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Your ass is grass and I am the lawnmower.

J. A. O'Fihely, 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

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde, in Success and Failure

Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.

Tennessee Williams, in Success and Failure

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

Earl Wilson, in Success and Failure

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

Woodrow Wilson, in Success and Failure

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

Walter Winchell, in Success and Failure

Nothing recedes like success.

Walter Winchell, 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

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Mae West, in Success and Failure

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin, in Success and Failure

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman, in Success and Failure