And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, read more

And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
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Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
[Lat., Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno
Verentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum
Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.]

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears.
[Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam read more

The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears.
[Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit.]

Never say
"Fail" again.

Never say
"Fail" again.

[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular
names and impossible loyalties.

[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular
names and impossible loyalties.

He that is down needs fear no fall
He that is low, no pride.

He that is down needs fear no fall
He that is low, no pride.