---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 13
number: 5
published: 1910-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Success in Failure," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 5 (March 1910): 399.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera135unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera135unse
start_page: 399
end_page: 399
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera135unse
  publication_year: 1910
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1910, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Success in Failure


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SNAP SHOT FROM A TOURISTS PEN.                             399

home, yes, a home and a heart,            will be    open for some 'tricky,
ill-bred'   foundling of these cruel streets.

Success in Failure.

If you do your best, there is no need of fretting because you
do not win, or succeed.           To have things come your way is not
always to win or to succeed.           "It reminds me," says a respected
college graduate,       "of my athletic days.         I   got quite accustomed
to defeat.    About the only consolation I got out of my athletics
was the knowledge that the exercise did me good.       I am glad I

kept at it, though.   The more I see and learn of men, the more
strongly I believe in Edison's maxim that 'genius is work.'   The
farther along you get in school or in life, the more men you will
meet who have as good or better minds than you have. But if
their minds are brighter than yours,         it is   because they have used
them longer, or have made better use of equal time than you have.
It is for us    all   to see   that   the latter shall net be true in      cur
case."