Success from Failure

I have not failed 700 times.
I have not failed once.
I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work.
When I have eliminated the ways that will not work,
I will find the way that will work.
- Thomas Edison

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming task into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we will be successful. Because if we don’t do the right thing, we will be doing the wrong thing and we will just be a part of the disease and not a part of the cure.
- E. F. Schumacher

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles Schwab

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
- Albert Schweitzer (Philosopher, Physician, Musician, Nobel laureate)

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
- William Menninger