Success and Failure

The moment of greatest peril is the moment of victory.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or by others.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

The sooner we get rid of losing, the happier everyone will be.

He was as successful as a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.