Society and the World

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

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

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

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.

Life, they urge, would be intolerable if men were to be guided in all they did by reason and reason only.

Logic is like the sword—those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

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

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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

It's never just a game when you're winning.

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

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

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

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

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

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

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

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

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.