Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Source: In My Favorite Quotations, by Norman Vincent Peale, 1990.
-- Henry David Thoreau, (Jul 12 1817-1862), US essayist, poet, naturalist; He is best known for his description of life at Walden Pond, Walden, 1854 and his essay Civil Disobedience, 1849.