“The road to success is always under construction.”– Arnold Palmer Related Quotes “Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”– Orison Swett Marden “The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.”– Henry Louis Gates “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison