Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. 738
The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. 571
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it. 804
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. 598
I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I’m enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I’ve truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time. 570
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. 1.24K
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. 2.18K
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. 797
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. 600
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. 551
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, ‘Let’s make a wish on a star,’ there’s one thing I wish for: wisdom. 621
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. 535
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of ’em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. 1.26K
Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I’ve not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat. 744
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. 535