I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
——Bill Cosby, American comedian
我不知道成功之道,但却知道失败之路的大门向人人敞开。
——比尔·科斯比,美国喜剧演员
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
——Beverly Sills, American soprano
如果你失败了你也许会失望,但如果你不尝试,你就死定了。
——贝弗利·西尔斯,美国女高音歌唱家
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that?But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.