Quotes About Success Or Failure

#1. 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

#2. Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

Edward Weston

#3. 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

#4. How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

Harold Ramis

#5. Success or failure is proportionate to intention.

Donna Labermeier

#6. 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

#7. Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.

Billy Graham

#8. Individuals carry their success or failure with them. It does not depend on outside conditions.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Malcolm X

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Success or Failure, there should always be a Drive to Keep on Creating.

Henry Johnson Jr

#15. 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

#16. It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.

Bruce Lee

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Success or failure in your work and relationships is dependent on how you manage your feelings.

Deborah Sandella

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Whatever your plan, you never invest your own self-worth in its ultimate success or failure.

Wayne Dyer

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. All the nations that make up the world are burdened down with riches or poverty, obesity or malnutrition, success or failure.

Billy Graham

#31. 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

#32. It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

Edgar Cayce

#33. If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

Jeff Beck

#34. Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.

Suki Waterhouse

#35. [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct.

William James

#36. 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

#37. We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Gary Player

#38. 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

#39. We always have a choice of going after positive or negative, prosperity or poverty, health or disease, success or failure.

Hina Hashmi

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Robin Tunney

#48. The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

Arthur C. Brooks

#49. None can define success or failure as everyone has his own.

Chandrashekar

#50. Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

Camille Paglia

#51. When the fire of your soul ignites the passion within your heart, don't view it as an opportunity for success or failure, view it as an open door for miracles.

Jennifer Finney Boylan

#52. The Problem Is the Problem A professional does not take success or failure personally. That's Priority Number One for us now. That our project has crashed is not a reflection of our worth as human beings. It's just a mistake. It's a problem - and a problem can be solved.

Steven Pressfield

#53. In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

Edward O. Wilson

#54. Success or failure is not a one day event, but continuous life process. Each day you succeed and each day you fail with life, and most of the time, success follows the failure.

Roshan Sharma

#55. If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do ... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?

R. Buckminster Fuller

#56. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

Bill Watterson

#57. So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Gavin DeGraw

#58. No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Alfred Adler

#59. What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts.

Eva Le Gallienne

#60. We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#61. The determination in your heroic effort
Will permeate your mind and heart
Even after your success or failure
Is long forgotten.

Sri Chinmoy

#62. The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

Neal Boortz

#63. The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.

Lou Holtz

#64. Luck tells us that we don't control our own fate, and that our path to success or failure is written by someone, or something, entirely outside ourselves.

Sophia Amoruso

#65. By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

Jonathan Kozol

#66. Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#67. Don't care about success or failure. Keep doing what you love. Success will follow.

Udai Yadla

#68. Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

Neale Donald Walsch

#69. Moving therefore from an original center, the sexual engagements of infinite players have no standards, no ideals, no marks of success or failure. Neither orgasm nor conception is a goal in their play, although either may be part of the play.

James P. Carse

#70. Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Napoleon Hill

#71. There is no success or failure in Nature.

John Searle

#72. There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of one man, and I cannot see any man's death as a contributing factor in the success or failure of a military campaign.

William, Saroyan

#73. Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.

Alan Keyes

#74. The main reason to measure objectives is not so much to reward or punish individual communications manager for success or failure as it is to learn from the research whether a program should be continued as is, revised, or dropped in favor of another approach

James E. Grunig

#75. The attitude with which we approach the situation can determine our success or failure.

Peyton Manning

#76. Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

Louis D. Brandeis

#77. The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

Theodore Roosevelt

#78. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Walter Scott

#79. Companies and careers have literally been saved or lost due to the success or failure of a single proposal.

David G. Pugh

#80. Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.

Alain De Botton

#81. You create your own luck by the way you play. There is no such luck as bad luck. Fate has nothing to do with success or failure, because that is a negative philosophy that indicts one's confidence, and I'll have no part of it.

Greg Norman

#82. Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#83. The way a person thinks is the key to everything that follows -- good or bad, success or failure. A person's thinking -- the way he thinks -- is the foundation structure upon which a life is built. Thinking guides decisions. Thinking -- how a person thinks -- determines every choice.

Andy Andrews

#84. There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

Miley Cyrus

#85. No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend.

Auliq Ice

#86. A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

Isabella Bird

#87. Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

Victor Kiam

#88. The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them.

Thomas Berry

#89. This is the most exciting study there is. It is the only thing I know of in life that makes you feel consistently better, whether it's success or failure, whether they love you or hate you.

Frederick Lenz

#90. My success or failure in school was dependent on my ability to follow a curriculum that felt as if it had very little to do with me as a human being.

Ben Hewitt

#91. Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

Benjamin Graham

#92. Inner peace has no correlation with success or failure - winning or losing.

Debasish Mridha

#93. Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'

Will C. Barnes

#94. Our efforts and actions produce results. These results come unlabeled. WE label them as success or failure based on OUR expectations. Don't forget that these labels are interchangeable if we allow ourselves to be free from an unhealthy attachment to our expectations.

Steve Maraboli

#95. There is no Success or Failure in "LOVE", by itself is a Victory !!

Mahesh Shekhar

#96. Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

Stephen King

#97. Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.

Peter Lynch

#98. Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Yann Martel

#99. Dear Lord, I pray that my place will never be with the cold, timid souls who do not compete yet criticize, for they never know or feel success or failure.

Bob Stoops

#100. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need on no outward stimulus.

Billy Graham