It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interestingand attractive to be a successful businessman, or railway man, or farmer, ora successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or thecolonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagginginterest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well,certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importanceby comparison.

As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

The person who succeeds is not the one who holds back, fearing failure, nor the one who never fails... but rather the one who moves on im spite of failure. Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat. Author: Teddy Roosevelt