Success and Failure

Success is relative:

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

The heights by great men reached and kept

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment . . . It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

SUDDEN SUCCESS IN GOLF IS LIKE THE SUDDEN ACQUISITION OF WEALTH. IT IS APT TO UNSETTLE AND DETERIORATE THE CHARACTER.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us.

Be kind to everyone on the way up; you’ll meet the same people on the way down.

There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don’t let that concern you. It’s your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite steadily, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.

I don't try to jump over 7 foot bars, I look around for 1 foot bars that I can step over.

Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.