Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.

"It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning... . Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get.

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

There are two ways of rising in the world, either by your own industry or by the folly of others.