Success and Failure

One out of suits with fortune.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I think what’s most disturbing about success is that it’s very hazardous to your health, as well as to your daily routine. Not only are there intrusions on your time, but there is a kind of corrosion of your own humility and sense of necessary workmanship. You get the idea that anything you do is in some way marvelous.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

It’s terrible to have a success; everyone wants you to repeat it by writing the same thing over again.

Publication is not necessarily a sign of success.

You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don’t let that concern you. It’s your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite steadily, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.

Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.

Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Without labor nothing prospers.

There is no success without hardship.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

To find fault is easy, to do better may be difficult.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Prosperity is full of friends.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.