Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes." ~ ' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes." -