Success and Failure

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

Mao Tse-Tung, in Success and Failure

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur, in Success and Failure

Nothing very good or very bad lasts very long.

D. W. Luthanen, in Success and Failure

Do, or do not. There is no try.

George Lucas, The Empire Strikes Back (Yoda), in Success and Failure

The average person thinks he isn't.

Larry Lorenzoni, in Success and Failure

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Vincent T. Lombardi, in Success and Failure

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, in Success and Failure

It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Imbesi's Law with Freeman's Extension: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty; but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Don't let fear stop you.

William F. Light, (to someone threatening to knock him out), in Success and Failure

Measure twice because you can only cut once.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure