Top 100 Quotes About Failure To Success
#1. It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.
John C. Maxwell
#2. You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#3. The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product man is supposed to live. If we learn those principles and obey them, then we find that the process of failure to success becomes more inevitability than experiment.
Myles Munroe
#4. In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
Abraham H. Maslow
#5. There is only one reason that you ever fail at anything ... and that is because you eventually change your mind. That's it! ... anything and everything you have ever decided to do, you have succeeded, or will succeed, at doing.
Victor L. Wooten
#6. When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.
M. Russell Ballard
#7. Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
Edward Weston
#8. It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.
Tom T. Hall
#9. When you lay down with neglect & sleep around with excuses, you wake up with failure ...
When you marry your goals & remain intimate with your vision, you'll give birth to your dreams.
Jay Danzie
#10. Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#11. If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.
Sharon Weil
#12. My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Wynonna Judd
#13. Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
Rupert Holmes
#14. Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.
Benjamin Carson
#15. Change doesn't come
without invitation.
You won't discover it in
routine. And you won't
create an all-new and better you if you wait for someone else
to give you permission. Transformation begins -
and ends - inside of you.
Ellen Hopkins
#16. The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda
#17. Barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up when they fall, retaining their optimism and sense of self, is a far greater predictor of future success than class position in Year 3.
Helen Fielding
#18. Stop giving yourself permission to fail;
start giving yourself permission to succeed.
You cannot win battles you have already lost in your mind.
You cannot lose battles you have already won in your heart.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#19. So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.
Jon Gordon
#20. Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.
David S. Rose
#21. I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
George W. Bush
#22. Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Bobby Knight
#24. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
#25. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
Orrin Woodward
#26. The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person.
Susan Wells Bennett
#27. The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.
Michael Josephson
#28. One never fails until they fail at trying to succeed.
Amit Abraham
#29. Failure is success only when your mission or objective is to fail.
Ben Tolosa
#30. When its no longer just about you and the sake of succeeding just to succeed, you will see miracles happen!
Lindsey Rietzsch
#31. We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.
Bill Cahan
#32. It takes tremendous effort to rise but it takes less effort to fall
Kedron Omosigho
#33. Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.
Peter Guber
#34. The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.
John Wooden
#35. All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
Max McKeown
#37. Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.
Richard G. Scott
#38. A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#40. I think for anyone to become good at something, they have to fail a lot too. And they have to be completely unafraid to fail or they'll never make it to the next level.
Amy Schumer
#41. Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius
#42. In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.
Charles Tomlinson
#43. I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it
Reggie Jackson
#44. The road to success is full of pit stops, pitfalls, and self pity; my advice is simply don't stop!
Noel DeJesus
#45. The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.
Fran Tarkenton
#46. Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years.
Samuel Beckett
#47. To be successful in life, there are many hurdles you have to get over. For me, the biggest hurdle to success has always been failure. But, growing up, my Dad was always positive ... that I'd never amount to anything.
Christopher Titus
#48. One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do; however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do!
C. Moorer
#49. It's been much harder to forgive myself. My mistake was like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripple effect has impacted everyone I love.
Heather Blanton
#51. Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.
Winston Churchill
#52. You won't be judged just by your successes and failure but also by how you reacted to success and failure.
Decker Schutt
#53. I've come to realize that the difference in success or failure is not how you look, how you dress, or how you're educated. It's how you think !
Mac Anderson
#54. What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Oscar Wilde
#55. On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success, to hear the victorious screams of the incompetent!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.
Shane Leslie
#57. The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.
Steve Maraboli
#58. Often, people relate success to what they have done and failure to what others have done to them.
T.G.C. Prasad
#59. The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.
Brian Tracy
#60. Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.
Peter Drucker
#61. Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!
Jean Van Hamme
#62. There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.
Benjamin Franklin
#63. Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.
Brandon Sanderson
#64. Wanting to win is what keeps the trade on, If you win, you lose the trade.
Auliq Ice
#65. You are likely to fall when you stop paddling your bicycle. Such is life. As long as you don't give up, you will never end up failing!
Israelmore Ayivor
#66. I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
Og Mandino
#67. You know that you're truly successful when you can afford to fail.
Henry Mosquera
#68. The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
Thomas A. Edison
#69. Failure brings success to those who don't quit.
Farshad Asl
#71. Do anything that you want to do other than what you are required to do ... success will surely go to others.
Amit Abraham
#72. It is she who listens to the rest of the world who fails, and it is she who has enough confidence to define success and failure for herself who succeeds.
Sophia Amoruso
#73. Success belong to the man who refuses to fair failure.
Sunday Adelaja
#74. Your failures contain key to your success and your destination
Sunday Adelaja
#75. For me, the greatest hurdle to success has always been failure.
Christopher Titus
#76. The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
Patrick Swayze
#77. I was never afraid of failure. I realized that I was responsible for my own success and that every day offers a new beginning and I was confident in my ability to improve.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#78. A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen ... Except the act of writing.
E.L. Doctorow
#79. You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.
Stella Adler
#80. When we give ourselves permission to fail..we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.
Eloise Ristad
#81. Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.
Michael J. Gelb
#82. Everything has a finsh line. You just have to keep moving forward until you cross it.
Lillielyse Monsel
#83. when you are a child you unconsciously adopt certain beliefs. Yet, there comes
the necessity to upgrade these beliefs as you grow older.
Derric Yuh Ndim
#84. To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.
Charles Tomlinson
#85. Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.
Melissa McPhail
#86. Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes.
Noel DeJesus
#87. He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure
the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
Ian Fleming
#88. The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#89. You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.
Fred Brooks
#90. If you want to be successful faster, you must double your rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.
Brian Tracy
#91. It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself - loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.
Nelson Algren
#92. Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.
Martha Beck
#93. As a captain whose vessel is about to crash on the rocks empties its souls of doubt, so are the hesitant useful for throwing off of an enterprise nearing its end: blame must be cast in failure, profits divided easily in success.
Bauvard
#94. Success is not genetic neither is failure hereditary ; it is the passion to strive further that counts .
Osunsakin Adewale
#95. The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#96. At the end, someone or something always gives up. It is either you give up and quit or the obstacle or failure gives up and makes way for your success to come through.
Idowu Koyenikan
#97. I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.
Reese Witherspoon
#98. I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.
Eva Le Gallienne
#99. Success or failure was always defined largely during the preparation. With good planning all one had to do was execute. Even last-second changes could be made with greater ease if the planning in the first place had been precise.
David Baldacci
#100. We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
Bram Stoker
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