Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails… — Margaret Drabble

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Margaret DrabbleNovelist · English · b. 1939

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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. — Benjamin Disraeli
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston Churchill
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. — Elbert Hubbard
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. — Margaret Drabble
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. — Margaret Drabble
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. — Margaret Drabble