FAILURE SUCCESS COURAGE

“Be of good cheer, therefore, since both my failure and my success are arguments of courage for yourselves.”
— De Lege Libellum, Liber CL

“Success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength”
— Liber AL vel Legis, Book of the Law

“The price of success was moral courage up to the theatrical limit.”
— Confessions of Aleister Crowley, Chapter 76

“Let him beware of the ‘lust of result’, of expecting too much, of losing courage if his first success is followed by a series of failures.

For success makes success seem so incredible that one is apt to create an inhibition fatal to subsequent attempts. One fears to fail; the fear intrudes upon the concentration and so fulfils its own prophecy. We know how too much pleasure in a love affair makes one afraid to disgrace oneself on the next few occasions; indeed, until familiarity has accustomed one to the idea that one’s lover has never supposed one to be more than human. Confidence returns gradually. Inarticulate ecstasy is replaced by a more sober enjoyment of the elements of the fascination.”
— Liber Samekh, Liber DCCC

“I think that every failure will be certainly traceable to my own dam foolishness; every little success to courage, skill, wit, tenacity. If I had but a little more of these!”
— John St John