Top 100 Quotes About Success And Failure

#1. A closed door really is an open door in disguise.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#2. Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

Bette Davis

#3. 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

#4. If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.

Kamal Ravikant

#5. I've never practiced a profession and have lived like a sort of student. I consider this my greatest success, my life hasn't been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.

Emil Cioran

#6. 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

#7. Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#8. Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. I always thought that the shortest distance between failure and success is luck. It so appears now that if you account for the wait time, the shortest distance between failure and success is action.

Majid Kazmi

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

Carlos Slim

#16. 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

#17. So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.

Jon Gordon

#18. The difference between Success and failure is not giving up.

Steven Redhead

#19. Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Don Shula

#20. 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

#21. Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.

Napoleon Hill

#22. When You Love Your Success, Why Don't you Love Your Failure Which Lets You Know About Your Drawbacks And Help You In Achieving A Much Needed Success ! !

Nithin Kumar

#23. One never fails until they fail at trying to succeed.

Amit Abraham

#24. When its no longer just about you and the sake of succeeding just to succeed, you will see miracles happen!

Lindsey Rietzsch

#25. 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

#26. Turn your failure into a fairy tale of success and triumph.

Debasish Mridha

#27. 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

#28. She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

Bob Dylan

#29. There are no easy paths in this life. And when troubles arise, we must face them with the same dignity as we do success.

Jocelyn Murray

#30. 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

#31. Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Confucius

#32. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success.

George Orwell

#33. If it doesn't work, get better, and try again.

Daniel Vlcek

#34. Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

#35. Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

Laurence Shames

#36. The road to success is full of pit stops, pitfalls, and self pity; my advice is simply don't stop!

Noel DeJesus

#37. We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

Queen Victoria

#38. I believe that in a way, sadness is happiness for there can be no wrong without right, no light without dark, no success without failure, no relief without pain, no love without hatred and no Snow White without the evil queen.

Girl234

#39. Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

James Dyson

#40. 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

#41. Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

Steven Kotler

#42. 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

#43. You won't be judged just by your successes and failure but also by how you reacted to success and failure.

Decker Schutt

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. Failure lies concealed in every success, and success in every failure.

Eckhart Tolle

#47. I saw that "success," "failure," "poverty", "riches," were price tags, money values of the market place which had mesmerized and sidetracked me for years.

Anzia Yezierska

#48. 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

#49. We fall. We get back up. We kick. We push. Again and again. Because the joy of success is greater than the depression of failure.

Jay McLean

#50. Every failure is an experience builder and a stepping stone towards success.

Debasish Mridha

#51. Often, people relate success to what they have done and failure to what others have done to them.

T.G.C. Prasad

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God.

James Bryant Conant

#56. There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

Benjamin Franklin

#57. In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Malcolm X

#58. With success, if you don't plan and just take each day as it comes, there will come failure.

Auliq Ice

#59. Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether ... it should be maintained or abolished.

Frederick Douglass

#60. Do anything that you want to do other than what you are required to do ... success will surely go to others.

Amit Abraham

#61. 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

#62. Your failures contain key to your success and your destination

Sunday Adelaja

#63. 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

#64. We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery

Samuel Smiles

#65. There's no point in being an unhappy success, and there's not much sense in being a happy failure either.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#66. What hits you affects you and wakes you up more then what pleases you.

Michel De Montaigne

#67. Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Tom Kite

#68. In life; don't go chasing after everything, or if you go for something, never doubt and miss the step, Or else you will miss a trick of the tail and lose everything.

Auliq Ice

#69. There are two unpardonable sins in this world
success and failure.

George Horace Lorimer

#70. Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.

Melissa McPhail

#71. Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond.

Sarah Lewis

#72. However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#73. Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes.

Noel DeJesus

#74. The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#75. You should have a kind heart because you are not just a so and so person,you are also an identity who is part of the almighty god,who above all likes kindness because,he is the bestower of all desired attributes but is benevolently looking for kindness from his creation

Jaspreet Kaur

#76. You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

Dave Van Ronk

#77. 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

#78. The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

Kazuaki Tanahashi

#82. Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Dale Dauten

#83. Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.

David Ogilvy

#84. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Elbert Hubbard

#85. Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

Ben Carson

#86. Limiting beliefs are a virus of the mind. They decline your success and happiness.

Maddy Malhotra

#87. Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will receive something so much better that you will see that the seeming failure was really a great success.

Wallace D. Wattles

#88. Many a soul will turn back to accustomed marshlands of defeat rather than brave the fogs of frustration; but the mountain peaks rise high above the rain and gloom.

V. Raymond Edman

#89. When you see the sadness, failure, and darkness
Find the opportunity to turn on the light of success.

Debasish Mridha

#90. Builders think of success and failure as feedback. They don't judge either as a complete win or loss.

Jerry I. Porras

#91. LEARN FROM FAILURE. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn't a success, welcome to the club.

Richard Branson

#92. The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm

Kurt Vonnegut

#93. Most merciful God, order my day so that I may know what you want me to do, and then help me to do it. Let me not be elated by success or depressed by failure. I want only to take pleasure in what pleases you, and only to grieve at what displeases you.

Kurt Bjorklund

#94. It is not the success, but it is the failures that make us stronger and more resilient.

Debasish Mridha

#95. The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you've ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ...

J.M. August

#96. Keep trying is success and giving up is failure.

Girdhar Joshi

#97. Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.

E. M. Forster

#98. Success dwells in a neighbourhood that can only be explored through failure, and it is through perfect knowledge of that neighbourhood that we gain perfect knowledge of her address

Agona Apell

#99. Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.

Erik Weihenmayer

#100. Failure Is Not Permanent, So Is The Success. So, Don't Look Down Upon People Who Are Failed While You're Succeeded. Table Can Turn Anytime. Be Gentle To Every Creation, It Ain't Cost A Thing ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

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