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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

If you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big!

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

People don’t have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. What with the scratches and the noise of running and falling, you won’t even be able to hear the shooting, much less worry about it. Yours truly has put this magic formula to use, with great success!

All great success is preceded by failure.

People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can’t do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort. I could, however, make myself insane, if I wished. (Though if I achieved the second, I might be able to make myself think I’d achieved the first….) Anyway, if there’s a lesson to be learned, it’s this: great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable. Or, in easier terms, distinguishing between Popsicles and insanity. Any questions?

Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don’t want.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, ‘try harder.’ And if that doesn’t work, try harder still!