Success and Failure

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

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

Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.

it is better to succeed with success than failure. George W.

 

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

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

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

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.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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

Games in which all may win remain as yet in this world uninvented.

It is a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it: if you utterly decline to make do with what you get, then somehow or other you are very likely to get what you want.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

Success has always been a great liar.

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

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

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

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.