Success and Failure

Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much:—surely that may be his epitaph, of which he need not be ashamed.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

A little twist to the usual, ‘Everything comes to he who waits’. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed there's so little competition.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.

Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

There is no success without hardship.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

All’s well that ends well: still the fine’s the crown; Whate’er the course, the end is the renown.

He ventured neck or nothing—heaven’s success Found, or earth’s failure.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night’s repose.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.