
“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
"The Last Ride Together", line 67 (1859).
“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
Source: Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
“Words are women, deeds are men.”
"In the Name of the Bodleian"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays
“All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
"The Shore and the Sea", Further Fables for Our Time (first publication, 1956)
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
“837. Words are women, deedes are men.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
1950s, The Chance for Peace (1953)
“For us, it is all right if the talks succeed, and it is all right if they fail.”
On President Richard Nixon’s visit to China (5 October 1971), as quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) edited by James Beasley Simpson.