Success and Failure

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success .

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

To find fault is easy, to do better may be difficult.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Publication is not necessarily a sign of success.

A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Failure is the true test of greatness.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Prosperity is full of friends.

The force of his own merit makes his way.

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred’s soon hit; This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here—should he need the next, Let the world mind him! This, throws himself on God, and unperplexed Seeking shall find Him.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

She knows there’s no success like failure