If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it; Who has left the world better than he found it, Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; Whose life was an inspiration; Whose memory a benediction.
Some of the greatest innovations have come from people who only succeeded because they were too dumb to know that what they were doing was impossible.
Such is life - Seven times down, Eight times up
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends - wisdom, money, materials and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
If you believe you can, or if you believe you can't, you're right