Success and Failure

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

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

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

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

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

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

There's a victory and defeat. The first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Failure is the true test of greatness.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed—I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than by defeat.

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

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

The moment of greatest peril is the moment of victory.

It is no doubt a good thing to conquer on the field of battle, but it needs greater wisdom and greater skill to make use of victory.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

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

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes.

One day it happens. Success happens and it catches you by surprise. One day you are a signature, next day, you are an autograph.