Like growth, success is often a steppingstone from failure.

Being the first to start or leave does not necessarily mean that you will be the first to finish or arrive. Or that you will finish or arrive.

You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them.

Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.

Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.

Success stood in some people’s way of moving from being good to being great.

Most biographies and autobiographies are each merely a slightly different packaging of the well-known fact that success rarely comes quickly or easily.

While recovering from failure, the bitter find comfort, not in the phrase ‘This too shall pass’, but in their hope that ‘They too shall fail’.

We cannot have, but can lose, everything.