The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

To make headway, improve your head.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first rate truck driver than a tenth rate executive.

A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

Work is the meat of life pleasure the dessert.

The truth doesnt hurt unless it ought to.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

With failure, you just try again.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.