“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
Bill Gates (verified)
“Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“In life, you must devote all your efforts to doing the best you can. And since we spoke at length just now about my studies, let me tell you the secret that led me to my success: My only strength is my tenacity.”
— Louis Pasteur (verified)“I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed, and had done the very best you could.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (verified)“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
— Helen Keller (verified)“Practice is nine tenths.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Everything tells me I shall succeed.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified)“All successful men have agreed in one thing—they were causationists.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Every thing impossible, until we see a success.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“You’re much more likely to do well if you start out to do something feasible instead of something that isn’t feasible. Isn’t that perfectly obvious?”
— Charlie Munger (verified)“I think track records are very important, If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you’re well on your way to success in this world.”
— Charlie Munger (verified)“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill (unverified)“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill (unverified)“All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (unverified)“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (unverified)“Men who hesitate never succeed in their undertakings.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)“Success is the most convincing talker in the world.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)“Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)“Nothing augments a battalion like success.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)