Success and Failure

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

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed.

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

Success is sweet, the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

SUDDEN SUCCESS IN GOLF IS LIKE THE SUDDEN ACQUISITION OF WEALTH. IT IS APT TO UNSETTLE AND DETERIORATE THE CHARACTER.

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Success didn't spoil me; I've always been insufferable.

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

The sooner we get rid of losing, the happier everyone will be.

Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at.

He was as successful as a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

I haven't failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that don't work.

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down...

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.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment . . . It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

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