I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts

Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough read more

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, read more

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to
themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
[Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non
obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi
vindicant potestates.]

Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told,
A truth still sacred, and believed of old,
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Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told,
A truth still sacred, and believed of old,
That no success attends on spears and swords
Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord's?

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn read more

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.