Top 63 Success Failure Work Quotes
#1. No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.
Merle Shain
#3. I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas Jefferson
#4. You may be saying: 'I have failed in life and shall always be a failure.' That is because you are ever looking back, living in your failure and thereby bringing to you more failure. Reverse this attitude of mind; work it the other way and live in future success.
Prentice Mulford
#5. Success isn't guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren't truly emotionally invested in your work.
Biz Stone
#6. We live in an age of publicity and hype. There's something about success that dehumanizes you, whereas failure reminds you of who you really are.
Norman Jewison
#7. 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
#8. If everything came easy in business everyone would have a business and be millionaires. It takes hard work, consistent effort and courage to keeping fighting the monster of failure.
Delaine Robins
#9. Understanding that you can't truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate.
Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually.
Tim Minchin
#10. Oh, and one more thing: if I try something that I've never done before, something that's particularly difficult for me, and it doesn't work out, that doesn't make it a failure. The fact that I actually succeeded in finishing it makes it a huge success. Think of all the people that never even try.
Sebastian Cole
#11. This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.
Will Self
#12. If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
Timothy Keller
#13. leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others. Success without a successor is failure. A worker's main responsibility is developing others to do the work (see
John C. Maxwell
#14. The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.
W. Somerset Maugham
#15. Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan Perlis
#16. A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#17. No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's ALWAYS had EVERYTHING work out for them with ZERO struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.
Chris Hardwick
#18. No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
#19. There are no secrets to success. It's the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell
#20. Learning how young people work is imperative - because getting the most out of employees can be the difference between success and failure for many companies.
Charlie Caruso
#21. Don't hate on someone whose hard work placed them on the road to success, while your envy and ill-intent put you on a path toward failure.
Carlos Wallace
#22. There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
Colin Powell
#23. Fail Fast: break items into small chunks which allows for more experimentation, leading to more chances for success Fail Forward: learn from what didn't work, but continue toward what will work Fail Better: the best way to increase our amount of learning is to increase our amount of failure
Erik Qualman
#24. Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.
Ruth Benedict
#26. There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
Jay Samit
#27. Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
Soichiro Honda
#28. Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.
Paul Theroux
#29. Clearly drive, IQ, and hard work are incredibly important. But ultimately what matters most is resilience
the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success.
Arianna Huffington
#30. Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.
Noel DeJesus
#31. There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long. Whenever there is asymmetry in outcomes, the average survival has nothing to do with the median survival.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#32. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell
#33. Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.
Cesc Fabregas
#34. 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
#35. If it doesn't work, get better, and try again.
Daniel Vlcek
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Success or failure in your work and relationships is dependent on how you manage your feelings.
Deborah Sandella
#46. Success steps: Think big. Act small. Then scale.
Failure steps: Act big. Think small. Then shrink.
Consider your next big thing a project. Get one. Get it right. No sense growing a broken system.
Richie Norton
#47. There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.
Bill Murray
#49. 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
#50. You will make mistakes. I promise. Get used to that idea. Don't think of them as mistakes. Just file them away as methods that didn't work. Learn your lesson and move on. -- from Homegrown and Handmade
Deborah Niemann
#51. 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
#52. I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.
Paulo Coelho
#53. Victory is not possible, if one doesn't learn from the past and mistakes made.
Auliq Ice
#54. Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.
Orrin Woodward
#55. It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.
Steve Goodier
#57. I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
Sam Donaldson
#58. 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
#59. The Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#60. I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Tennessee Williams
#61. It does not matter where you are standing right now, what matters is where you are headed to.
Sanchita Pandey
#62. Sometimes, the risks we take are so extreme that if things didn't work in our favor, we could lose EVERYTHING for the sake of our faith.
D. Nicole Williams
#63. Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success.
Anthony Liccione
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