Success is when reality exceeds expectations.

Success is when reality exceeds expectations.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough read more

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world read more

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is read more

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.