Top 100 Quotes About Success Or Failure
#1. In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
Abraham H. Maslow
#2. 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
#3. 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
#5. Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
Edward Weston
#6. 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
#7. Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
That is contentment.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#8. How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
Harold Ramis
#9. 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
#10. Failure is success only when your mission or objective is to fail.
Ben Tolosa
#12. 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
#13. Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.
Billy Graham
#14. 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
#15. Individuals carry their success or failure with them. It does not depend on outside conditions.
Ralph Waldo Trine
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Success or Failure, there should always be a Drive to Keep on Creating.
Henry Johnson Jr
#26. 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
#27. Builders think of success and failure as feedback. They don't judge either as a complete win or loss.
Jerry I. Porras
#28. What matters is the success or failure of your will. Your will to overcome human weakness. Your will to work. To learn. I will have no shirkers here, boy.
Jim Butcher
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind.
Ramananda Prasad
#32. 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
#33. Failure is not able to have what you planned for, you planning for 'F' and having 'A' is a failure.
Success is having what you do expect or planned, having 'F' when you planned for it is a success.
Miracle is having a success you dont planned for, it breaks the law.
Adelaja Precious
#34. It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.
Bruce Lee
#35. This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.
Swami Vivekananda
#36. The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.
Warren G. Bennis
#37. In 1788 Dr. Rush had told the clergy that, whatever their doctrinal differences, "you are all united in inculcating the necessity of morals," and "from the success or failure of your exertions in the cause of virtue, we anticipate the freedom or slavery of our country.
Gordon S. Wood
#38. Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
George Ross Kirkpatrick
#39. All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
Alberto Giacometti
#40. Success or failure in your work and relationships is dependent on how you manage your feelings.
Deborah Sandella
#41. Cinderella Rule #16
Standards. Goals. Everyone has them. Or should. But before you judge yourself a success or failure, make certain the standards you're applying are your own. And that the goals you're trying to achieve aren't being pursued for the wrong reasons.
Donna Kauffman
#42. No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Napoleon Hill
#43. An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.
Dale Carnegie
#44. Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.
Frederick Lenz
#45. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
Michael Crawford
#46. Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.
James Lane Allen
#48. Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.
Hal Higdon
#49. I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.
Michael Koryta
#50. Actions can let you fail or let you succeed. Either way it will never fail to give you experience which is much more important than success or failure.
Debasish Mridha
#51. You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be a failure.
Eckhart Tolle
#52. That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.
Kim Harrison
#53. The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.
Norman Vincent Peale
#54. Whatever your plan, you never invest your own self-worth in its ultimate success or failure.
Wayne Dyer
#55. When a person works towards a goal, he or she immediately creates two possible scenarios or outcomes; namely success and failure.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#56. Whether we are working to improve our health, wealth, personal achievement, or professional enterprise, the difference between triumphant success or bitter failure lies in the degree of our commitment to seek out, study, and apply those half-dozen things
Jim Rohn
#57. There is only one person in the world, aside from your dog, who has any hope of liking you regardless of your success or failure. That's you. I think it's worth a little of your time to get to know that person better.
H.L. Stephens
#58. By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.
Norman Vincent Peale
#59. It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
Cyril Connolly
#60. I am inviting you to discover that deeper than any pattern, deeper than personality, deeper than success or failure, deeper than worth or worthlessness, there is a radiance that is undeniable, always present - the truth of who you are.
Gangaji
#61. Persistence in the face of failure is of course important, but it is not the same thing as dedication or passion. Persistence is a discipline that you learn; devotion is a dedication you can't ignore.
Stuart Firestein
#62. School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.
Jules Henry
#63. It's not about success and failure. It's not about good days and bad days. It's not about wealth or poverty. It's not about health or sickness. It's not even about life or death. It's about glorifying God in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.
Mark Batterson
#64. There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.
Anthony Doerr
#65. Do not be afraid to try. Do not be afraid to fail. Be afraid to simply exist never knowing either the high of success or the low of failure.
Shayla Black
#66. All the nations that make up the world are burdened down with riches or poverty, obesity or malnutrition, success or failure.
Billy Graham
#67. Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.
Frederick Lenz
#68. Believe it; 25 years from now or less, you will be voted for or appointed by the actions you are taking today! Guess what the vote will mean. Will it be an election for you to occupy the edifice of failure or to be the administrator in the kingdom of success? Rise up and optimize your potentials!
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#70. It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.
Edgar Cayce
#71. If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
Jeff Beck
#72. Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.
Suki Waterhouse
#73. [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct.
William James
#74. As Henry Moore carved
or modelled his sculpture every day,
he strove to surpass Donatello
4. and failed, but woke the next morning
elated for another try.
Donald Hall
#75. If you look to artists who've managed to achieve lifelong careers, you detect the same pattern: They all have been able to persevere, regardless of success or failure.
Austin Kleon
#76. If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes.
Neal Boortz
#78. I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.
Randeep Hooda
#79. We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
Gary Player
#80. Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.
George Orwell
#81. We always have a choice of going after positive or negative, prosperity or poverty, health or disease, success or failure.
Hina Hashmi
#82. No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.
Jack Ma
#83. Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure. By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.
Andy Andrews
#84. Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other. If
Bertrand Russell
#85. Much in life is simply a matter of perspective. It's not inherently good or
bad, a success or failure; it's how we choose to look at things that makes the difference.
David Niven
#86. My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#87. My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.
Judy Garland
#88. Quitting-it was a dirty word in a place where pilgrims had endured harsh winters and where pioneers had struggled through death and disease to create new lives. Giving up or stepping back or setting aside something you thought you wanted- it was almost a shameful act.
Deb Caletti
#89. All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.
Henry David Thoreau
#90. In that moment, success or failure would lose all relevance. The triumph was in the stance. In the defiance. Because this is the essence of life itself. Human and wild, in that moment we are all the same.
Steven Erikson
#91. Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.
Bob Anderson
#92. Obstacles are a test of determination. You can choose to let them stop you or you can plow through them.
Tessa Brookfield
#93. The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
Alice James
#94. Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Scott Adams
#95. As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.
Andrew Cohen
#96. Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.
Steve Backley
#97. Every sucessful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him.
K'wan
#98. There is no objective criteria for either success or failure. People who achieve their goals are successful, those who don't are not.
Michael Josephson
#99. The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is an excuse for failure, violent behavior, or indulgence in drugs.
Roland Merullo
#100. I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even on external circumstances, it depends only on my faithfulness. God will give me the gifts necessary to do whatever He calls me to do, and He will not be hindered in His work by circumstances.
Lester Sumrall
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