Top 100 Quotes About Success Failure
#1. 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
#2. It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. Put your failure to work for you.
Thomas J. Watson
#3. Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.
Fran Tarkenton
#4. The history of "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is one of idealism, struggle, despair, passion, success, failure, and enormously long lunch-breaks.
Douglas Adams
#5. Success & failure both are temporary, utilizing your skills can take you to the wiser position.
Srinivas Shenoy
#6. Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power.
Porochista Khakpour
#7. Divorce is success. Failure is staying married to a person you no longer love.
Ben Tolosa
#8. Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.
Joshua L. Goldberg
#9. Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.
Myles Munroe
#10. Mistakes and failure are not signs of weakness; instead they are opportunities for future success. Failure is a sign of a creative mind, of original thought and strength.
Edward B. Burger
#11. Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
James Mark Baldwin
#12. Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.
James Dyson
#13. Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone
#14. When a million little things go right, that's called success. Failure functions as the great leveler. When things don't go as planned, it's humbling. It's important to make mistakes along the way, or we would be impossible to live with.
Judy Frankel
#15. The difference between success & failure isn't ability as much as action.
Orrin Woodward
#16. Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.
Frederick Lenz
#17. I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
Claire Messud
#18. In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
Abraham H. Maslow
#20. Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
Junot Diaz
#21. Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
Bette Davis
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.
Napoleon Hill
#25. Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth.
Brandi L. Bates
#26. When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.
M. Russell Ballard
#28. 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
#29. Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
Edward Weston
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#33. If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.
Sharon Weil
#34. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#40. 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
#41. All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.
John Henry Comstock
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.
Carlos Slim
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. All great success is preceded by failure.
Brian Tracy
#48. So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.
Jon Gordon
#49. Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.
David S. Rose
#50. Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
That is contentment.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#51. Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
Michael Eisner
#52. 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
#53. How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
Harold Ramis
#54. Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Bobby Knight
#55. The difference between Success and failure is not giving up.
Steven Redhead
#57. Think positive. Envision your rest as you become more deprived. Envision your success as you endure more failure. Do not fuel despair with false truth. Instead, battle despair with hope.
Peter S. Fogg
#58. 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
#59. There is only one reason of YOUR failure..
'You
Himmilicious
#60. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
Orrin Woodward
#61. Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Don Shula
#62. 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
#64. 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
#65. Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.
Napoleon Hill
#66. We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
Albert Bandura
#67. 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
#68. One never fails until they fail at trying to succeed.
Amit Abraham
#69. Failure is success only when your mission or objective is to fail.
Ben Tolosa
#70. When luck hits you hard with Failure; hit it back softly with your Success!
Naila Tennyson
#71. The possibility of success was motivating me more than the fear of failure.
Herman Cain
#72. When its no longer just about you and the sake of succeeding just to succeed, you will see miracles happen!
Lindsey Rietzsch
#73. We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.
Bill Cahan
#74. It takes tremendous effort to rise but it takes less effort to fall
Kedron Omosigho
#75. 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
#76. The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.
John Wooden
#77. When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.
Elon Musk
#78. Failure does not define us, it refines us.
Steve Knox
#79. Turn your failure into a fairy tale of success and triumph.
Debasish Mridha
#80. All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
Max McKeown
#81. Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.
W. Bruce Cameron
#83. Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.
Richard G. Scott
#84. 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
#85. You expect success, you respect failure.
Greg Norman
#87. She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.
Bob Dylan
#88. Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.
Mariella Frostrup
#89. Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.
Billy Graham
#90. The process of living, for each of us, is pretty similar. For every gain there is a setback. For every success, a failure. For every moment of joy, a time of sadness. For every hope realized, one is dashed.
Sue Atchley Ebaugh
#91. Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius
#95. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success.
George Orwell
#96. In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.
Charles Tomlinson
#97. If it doesn't work, get better, and try again.
Daniel Vlcek
#98. Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
#99. 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
#100. Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments.
J. K. Bharavi
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