If at first you do not succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about things.

Success, as I see it, is a result, not a goal.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Men are so constituted that everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Man errs as long as he strives.

To be a successful father there is one absolute rule: when you have a kid, do not look at it for the first two years.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

That is what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothin that they seem indispensable.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

There ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexibl eof passions.

It is not enough to aim, you must hit.