Success and Failure

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.

Mark Twain, in Success and Failure

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain, in Success and Failure

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

William Van Horne, in Success and Failure

They are able because they think they are able.

Vergil, in Success and Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal, in Success and Failure

A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington, in Success and Failure

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde, in Success and Failure

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.

Bert Whitney, in Success and Failure

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Mae West, in Success and Failure

Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.

Peter Wastholm, in Success and Failure

Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.

Peter Wastholm, in Success and Failure

All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagner, in Success and Failure

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

Weisert, in Success and Failure

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure

There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.

Gloria Steinem, in Men and Women and Success and Failure

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

Bessie Stanley, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Liz Smith, in Success and Failure

You see things and you say, "Why?" But I see things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Part I, Act I (1921), in Success and Failure