Success and 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.

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

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

I don't try to jump over 7 foot bars, I look around for 1 foot bars that I can step over.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

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

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

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

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or by others.

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

Winners make it happen. Losers let it happen.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.

Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.

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

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.