Ain't Nobody Gonna Hold me Down...

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. Beverly Sills (1929 - )

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby (1937 - )

(Gee, I wonder who stole what from whom...)

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)

Act as if it were impossible to fail. Dorothea Brande

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. Gore Vidal (1925 - )

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. John Keats (1795 - 1821)

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)

You always pass failure on the way to success. Mickey Rooney (1920 - )

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. Mike Ditka (1939 - )

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)